IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131045 accession number: C.34-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 22 March 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, painted in blue, bluish-green, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, mauve, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat unglazed base has a circular ventilation hold in the centre. The square rocky base rises up into a low mound of rocks at the back which supports the figure. On the top there are applied leaves and flowers: one mauve and white with two leaves: one yellow with mauve centre and one leaf; two blue and white with three leaves and one leaf on the side of the heap of rocks. The Mine Commandant stands on his right leg with his left advanced. He turns his head to his left, and has his left arm bent with the hand on his hip, and his right extended in front holding an axe with a short handle. He has a long curling brownish-grey wig falling down over his right shoulder and back, and wears a bluish-green pillbox hat with a turned up flap at the front inscribed AR (Augustus Rex) in mongram in gold, and a gold edging. He wears a white coat with a pleated rill, gold buttons and edgings, a red waistcoat with gold buttons, white breches and stockings, black knee caps, and black shoes with gold buckles. Behind he wears a long curved black leather apron with a pale brown leatherlining, securing in front under a black pouch, and a holder with two wedges. A sword with a gold hilt is slung on his left sideby a mauve ribbon. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted overglaze in enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone on 11 April 1935 from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, for £100 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/131045 PEOPLE ------------------- miner SUBJECTS ------------------- wig hat wig hat TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, yellow, green, bluish-green, flesh pink, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- The National Art Collections Fund at the Fitzwilliam Museum, An Exhibition to celebrate The Fund's 85th Anniversary Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Betrachtungen zur Folge der Bergmannsfiguren von J.J. Kaendler Mining Porcelain from Meissen Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Fine British and European Ceramics & Glass ---