Figure of Spring

Summary

Public: Figure of Spring, young woman in classical drapery with spilling cornucopia and bunch of flowers, on rocky mound and square plinth. White earthenware, painted in yellow, orange, brown, green and blue high temperature colours beneath a pearlware glaze. Private: Figure of a woman, half-dressed dressed in white drapery decorated with blue and ochre spots, and ochre sash across one shoulder, standing on rocky mound picked out in green, brown, blue and ochre. She stands with large upside down cornucopia beneath right arm, decorated with stripes and spots in blue, ochre and brown, and spilling flowers at her feet, small posy of flowers clasped to chest in her left hand. Square plinth with concave sides and chamfered corners, with relief-moulded borders of stiff leaves picked out in alternating ochre and brown, above single horizontal blue band. Blue pearlware glaze, heavily crazed and pooling in crevices.