id: 97973 accession number: 1917.611.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.611.2 updated: 2023-12-05 07:46:40.354000 Figure of Spring from the Four Seasons, c. 1775. Bristol Porcelain Factory (British, 1770–81). Hard-paste porcelain; overall: 27 x 14.5 x 9.4 cm (10 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness 1917.611.2 title: Figure of Spring from the Four Seasons title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1775 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1780 current location: 203A British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness copyright: --- culture: England, Bristol technique: hard-paste porcelain department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bristol Porcelain Factory (British, 1770–81) - maker 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. --- measurements: Overall: 27 x 14.5 x 9.4 cm (10 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020) opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00 British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * No legacy exhibitions. --- PROVENANCE Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1916 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1917- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n13 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n14 "European Porcelains Bequeathed by Mary Warden Harkness." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 2 part II (February 1928): 57-59 page number: Reproduced: p. 58 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137108 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
Incorrectly published as Spring (1917.611.1) page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 267 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n55 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611.2/1917.611.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611.2/1917.611.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611.2/1917.611.2_full.tif