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Girl representing summer

Figure
ca. 1780-1793 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure in hard-paste biscuit porcelain, representing Summer, from a set of the four Seasons. A peasant girl standing on a circular base, and holding a birds' nest containing fledglings, and a sheaf of corn is in the fold of her apron.;

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGirl representing summer (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste biscuit porcelain
Brief description
Figure in hard-paste biscuit porcelain, representing Summer, made at Niderviller pottery and porcelain factory, France, ca. 1780-1793.
Physical description
Figure in hard-paste biscuit porcelain, representing Summer, from a set of the four Seasons. A peasant girl standing on a circular base, and holding a birds' nest containing fledglings, and a sheaf of corn is in the fold of her apron.;
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'NIDERVILLE' (Impressed in relief on applied strip)
  • 'No. 36 F' (Incised)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Herbert Allen (Maude Louise Allen)
Production
According to the register this was probably modelled by Lemire (ie Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, known as Lemire, 1741-1827, who left Luneville sometime before 1779 and subsequently worked at Niderviller). Another from the same set (C.125-1922) is reproduced by W. B. Honey, French Porcelain (1950 and 1972), pl. 91, where dated to about 1765-75. Aileen Dawson, Eighteenth-century French porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum, 1996, cat. 219, illustrates a similar model to the last one, which she dates to ca. 1780.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.124-1922

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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