A parian ware figure of Victoria, the Princess Royal, wearing a simple shift dress, leaning against a support with her right leg, holding a sheaf of corn in her left hand. The figure is the allegory of Summer.This figure is a reduction of a life-size marble commissioned in 1846 by Prince Albert from the sculptor Mary Thornycroft, part of a group in which Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's four eldest children were depicted as allegories of the seasons. The marble sculptures were commissioned for Osborne House in the Isle of Wight and were exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851.