Terms and conditions of use
Spring, from The four seasons
(c. 1770)
- Medium
- porcelain (soft-paste)
- Measurements
- 17.8 × 7.8 × 8.8 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Mennecy, Seine-et-Oise, France
- Accession Number
- D24.1-1992
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mr Peter Wynne Morris, Governor, 1992
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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The putto’s function as allegorical figure developed in the sixteenth century and continued to be used in this way in the eighteenth century. This group of four putti executed in soft-paste porcelain are allegories of the four seasons. Each figure is accompanied by attributes – symbolically charged objects – that identify their allegorical meaning. Spring is accompanied by blooming flowers; summer by ripened wheat; autumn by the grape harvest; and winter by a brazier, a source of warmth.
- Physical description
- A girl with a basket of flowers.