Figure of Spring from the Four Seasons

Cleveland Museum of Art

Figure of Spring from the Four Seasons

Bristol Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-9b28360a299b

Date
c. 1775
Medium
hard-paste porcelain
Culture
England, Bristol
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
97973

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The modern notion of childhood as a time of innocence and simplicity emerged during the second half of the eighteenth century. This understanding of adolescence led to numerous depictions of children as personifications of the four seasons. Here spring is portrayed as a young girl adorning her hair with flowers. The flowers filling her basket and growing in the grass around her signal spring’s arrival. Allegorical figures most often decorated a table during the dessert course, providing amusing subjects for conversation.

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Credit line
Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness
Provenance
?-1916: Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1917-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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  • Representative object from the topic 18th Century Porcelain Figurines
    18th Century Porcelain Figurines

    These objects are decorative ceramic figures and figure groups made from soft-paste or hard-paste porcelain during the 18th century, produced by major European porcelain factories including Meissen, Sèvres, Derby, Chelse

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