The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Figure of a Gardener
c. 1765–70
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Due to the abundance of grapes, pears, plums, and other fall fruits spilling from the figure’s basket, this Gardener has also been considered a personification of Autumn.Description
Even though this figure and his counterpart (1945.36) are not accompanied by a sheep, these ceramic sculptures were sometimes known as “Garland Shepherds” during the mid-1700s. The name derived from a similar set produced by one of the Bow Porcelain Factory’s rivals, the Derby Porcelain Factory, in which the male figure holds a lamb. While these two factories often produced similar sets of pastoral, allegorical, biographical, and religious figures, the Bow Factory was known as one of the preeminent porcelain manufacturers, rivaled only by the Chelsea Porcelain Factory, with which Bow would later merge.- ?-1945(Frank Stoner, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1945-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Foote, Helen. "Shepherd and Shepherdess in Bow Porcelain." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 3 (March 1946): 23-24. Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 23 www.jstor.org
- British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
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