{"data": {"id": 97971, "accession_number": "1917.611", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Figures Depicting the Four Seasons, c. 1775. Bristol Porcelain Factory (British, 1770\u201381). Hard-paste porcelain; part 1: 28.4 x 16.2 x 13.7 cm (11 3/16 x 6 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.); part 2: 27 x 14.5 x 9.4 cm (10 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.); part 3: 27 x 15.9 x 11.7 cm (10 5/8 x 6 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.); part 4: 27.2 x 13 x 11.5 cm (10 11/16 x 5 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness, 1917.611", "current_location": "203A British Painting and Decorative Arts", "title": "Figures Depicting the Four Seasons", "creation_date": "c. 1775", "creation_date_earliest": 1770, "creation_date_latest": 1780, "artists_tags": ["gender unknown"], "culture": ["England, Bristol"], "technique": "hard-paste porcelain", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Decorative Arts", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Part 1: 28.4 x 16.2 x 13.7 cm (11 3/16 x 6 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.); Part 2: 27 x 14.5 x 9.4 cm (10 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.); Part 3: 27 x 15.9 x 11.7 cm (10 5/8 x 6 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.); Part 4: 27.2 x 13 x 11.5 cm (10 11/16 x 5 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"part 1": {"height": 0.284, "height_inch": 11, "height_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "width": 0.162, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.375, "depth": 0.137, "depth_inch": 5, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.375}, "part 2": {"height": 0.27, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625, "width": 0.145, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.6875, "depth": 0.094, "depth_inch": 3, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.6875}, "part 3": {"height": 0.27, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625, "width": 0.159, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25, "depth": 0.117, "depth_inch": 4, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.625}, "part 4": {"height": 0.272, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.6875, "width": 0.13, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125, "depth": 0.115, "depth_inch": 4, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 346817, "title": "Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", "description": "<i>Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).", "opening_date": "1934-11-09T05:00:00"}, {"id": 312341, "title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition", "description": "<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).", "opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"}, {"id": 306699, "title": "British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)", "description": "<i>British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).", "opening_date": "2020-06-30T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "No legacy exhibitions.", "opening_date": null}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1916", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1917-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Allegorical figures most often decorated a table during the dessert course, providing amusing subjects for conversation.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In this group depicting the four seasons, a young boy in ice skates represents winter; a young lady adorns her hair with flowers in spring; a young man guards his beehive in summer; and a girl gathers fruit in autumn.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60750109"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1917.611-figures-depicting-th"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "\"Bequest of Mrs. Charles W. Harkness.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 4 (1917): 63.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 63", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136090"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.<br>Only <em>Summer </em>(1917.611.3) and <em>Autumn</em> (1917.611.2) reproduced.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n13"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.<br>Only <em>Summer </em>(1917.611.3) and <em>Autumn</em> (1917.611.2) reproduced.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n14"}, {"citation": "\"The Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness: A Tribute and an Accounting.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>15, no. 2 part II (February 1928): 43-50", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 43", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137106"}, {"citation": "\"European Porcelains Bequeathed by Mary Warden Harkness.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>15, no. 2 part II (February 1928): 57-59", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 59", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137108"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.<br>Only <em>Autumn</em> (1917.611.2) reproduced. Incorrectly published as <em>Spring </em>(1917.611.1).", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 267", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n55"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.611", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611/1917.611_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "383", "filesize": "", "filename": "1917.611_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611/1917.611_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "1447", "filesize": "", "filename": "1917.611_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611/1917.611_full.tif", "width": "18288", "height": "7785", "filesize": "", "filename": "1917.611_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611/1917.611_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "559", "height": "900", "filesize": "96975"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611/1917.611_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2110", "height": "3400", "filesize": "653090"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611/1917.611_alt0_full.tif", "width": "3400", "height": "5478", "filesize": "55899612"}, "date_created": "2006-01-16T16:29:20", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 97971, "creators": [{"id": 14385, "description": "Bristol Porcelain Factory (British, 1770\u201381)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "maker", "biography": "Benjamin Lund produced soft-paste porcelain known as Lund's Bristol Ware between 1749 and 1752. When William Cookworthy (1705-1784) moved his pottery works to Bristol from Plymouth, he began to produce England's first hard-paste porcelain. The works were soon transferred to his factory manager then partner Richard Champion (1743-1791), who directed the factory until its demise around 1782.", "name_in_original_language": null, "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1}], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1917-04-27T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1770, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1775", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "cover", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": ["Spring; Autumn; Summer; Winter"], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 05:17:12.586000"}}