IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140100 accession number: C.11-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 12 June 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, bluish-green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, red, grey, and dark-brown enamels. She stands against a white stump on a flat white circular base encrusted with coloured flowers and foliage. With her left hand she holds her apron, enclosing two green marrows and three beetroot. In her right she holds a parsnip. She wears a peculiar white circular straw-hat, with an oriental looking overhang to the brim, fastened under her chin with a pink ribbon. Her bodice is bluish-green with gold buttons, and she also wears a white chemise with sleeves rolled up and fastened at the neck with a yellow string. She also wears a white apron and white skirt. Her feet are bare, and her hair is short and dark. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, for £35 on February 11, 1934, by Cecil, 2nd Lord Fisher; Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone 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/140100 PEOPLE ------------------- Lissauer, Willy Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur female gardener SUBJECTS ------------------- selling vegetables selling vegetables TECHNIQUES ---------- modelling TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1746 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1746 creation date latest: 1750 CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Eberlein, Johann Friedrich DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Early Dresden Porcelain made at the Meissen Factory 1746-1751 in the Collection of Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, and Jane, his Wife, of Kilverstone Hall in the County of Norfolk Dresden China: An Introduction to the Study of Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Enlightenment. A Catalogue of Eighteenth-Century Meissen from a Private Collection All Walks of Life: a Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection. Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Die autonomen figürlich Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, 2 volumes ---