IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140093 accession number: C.10-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 11 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, grey-green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, a little red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The glazed underside is divided into two recessed areas by a transverse wall, and has a ventilation slit at the back. The low mound base has three sides, one straight, and the other two slightly curved and irregular in plan. The top is green with grey-green wavy lines overall to represent grass, and there are a few dabs of pale brown on the edge. The boy stands on his right leg with his left advanced. His right arm is akimbo, and his left at his side.The object held in his left hand is missing. His head is tilted slightly to his right, and he looks downwards. He has pink skin and dark brown eyes, and wears a turban with a pink crown, and gold striped white surround on which is a pink, green and yellow jewel. His breeches are pink, and he has a pink and gold striped long-sleeved coat, a long pink short-sleeved over-coat with a pale yellow lining, a yellow sash, and yellow shoes. Hanging round his neck on a pink ribbon is a gold crescent with a pink, red, and pale green jewel below it. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: probably Dr J.W.L. Glaisher; Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140093 PEOPLE ------------------- Sultan TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, glazed, and painted in green, grey-green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, a little red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The glazed underside is divided into two recessed areas by a transverse wall, and has a ventilation slit at the back. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Höchst Porcelain Manufactory maker: Melchior, Johann Peter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9.9 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3 7/8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.6 dimension: Height units: in value: 7¼ dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.7 dimension: Width units: in value: 4 1/16 CITATIONS -------- Continental Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century Johann Peter Melchior als Modellmeister in Höchst Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796 Johann Peter Melchior 1747-1825, Bildhauer und Modellmeister im Höchst, Frankenthal und Nymphenburg Turkish Delights: Meissen Figures for the Marchand-mercier Gille Bazin in 1756 Fine Continental Porcelain. 18th Century Porcelain Figures and Groups . . . Fine German Wares . . .Meissen . . . Italian Porcelain European Faience and Porcelain European Ceramics, 26th November 2002 Highly Important Furniture, Decorations, Carpets, and Ceramics, ... 25 April 1998 ---