IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140144 accession number: C.17-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 19 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-past porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in green, yellow, red, purple, grey, and black enamels and a little gold. He stands against a broad white stump on a low white square base decorated with applied coloured flowers and foliage. With his right hand he holds his black three cornered hat, which rests on part of the stump, and in his left hand he holds a pair of white gloves. He wears a long white coat with green lining cuffs, gold buttons, and trimmings, and white breeches and long black boots. His black belt is fastened in front with a gold buckle, and from it hangs on the left his gold hilted sword in a brown scabbard. His grey wig is fastened behind with a black ribbons, below which his black perruque hangs down as far as his belt. object type: hard-paste porcelain figure of a gentleman painted in enamels and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Hyam & Co, London, on 23 May 23, 1938, for £25 by Cecil Vavasseur Fisher, 2nd Baron 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/140144 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.8 CITATIONS -------- 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 Die autonomen figürlich Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, 2 volumes ---