IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131044 accession number: C.32-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 12 June 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, flesh pink, a little red, beige, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside of the base is unglazed, and has had the ventilation hole and two firing cracks filled with a brown substance. The low, irregular four-sided base has a tall tree stump at the back and is decorated with applied leaves and a yellow and a red and white rose at the front. The musician stands on his right leg with his left extended in front. In his left hand he holds a large brown pipe to his lips. In his right hand he holds a brown drum-stick with which he plays on a monstrous white drum decorated with pale brown rope trimmings. The base of the drum rests on the tree-stump, and it is supported by a beige strap which hangs over his left arm. The drummer has thick curly grey hair hanging down to his shoulders. He wears a black three-cornered hat with a gold stud on its left side, a white shirt with ruffles at the wrists, a long white coat with gold buttons; pale yellow breeches with gold bands at the knees; white stockings, and black shoes with gold buckles. object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, a little red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher on 23 July 1933 from Willy Lissauer, Berlin for £36 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Fisher Collection# creditline: Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131044 PEOPLE ------------------- Lissauer, Willy musician SUBJECTS ------------------- drum drumstick pipe drum drumstick pipe TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, glazed, painted in enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1747 - 1747 creation date earliest: 1747 creation date latest: 1747 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Reinicke, Peter maker: Bouchardon, Edme maker: Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- Dresden China: An Introduction to the Study of Meissen Porcelain Catalogue of the Early Dresden Porcelain made at the Meissen Factory 1735-1747 in the Collection of Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, and Jane, his Wife, of Kilverstone Hall in the County of Norfolk Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Meissen Figures 1730-1775 The Kaendler Period Figures of the Enlightenment. A Catalogue of Eighteenth-Century Meissen from a Private Collection Edme Bouchardon's 'Cris de Paris': crying food in early modern Paris All Walks of Life: a Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection. Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/689/55/large_C_32_1954_C_27_1954_T_2111_mas_legacy.jpg height: 786 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/689/55/mid_C_32_1954_C_27_1954_T_2111_mas_legacy.jpg height: 384 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/689/55/C_32_1954_C_27_1954_T_2111_mas_legacy.jpg height: 2105 pixels width: 2741 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/689/55/preview_C_32_1954_C_27_1954_T_2111_mas_legacy.jpg height: 192 pixels width: 250 pixels