IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140162 accession number: C.20-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 12 June 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red,purple, brown and black enamels, with a little gilding. He stands against a white tree stump on a flat oblong white base encrusted with coloured flowers and foliage. He carries on his back a tub, made of brown and white staves clamped by two black hoops, which is slung over his shoulders by two white straps and is filled with purple grapes. He carries a bunch of grapes in his right hand, and with his left he is putting two grapes into his mouth. He wears a wide brimmed black three cornered hat, a short sleeveless blue coat with gold buttons, a white knotted tie, a white shirt and breeches, white hose, and black shoes with pale pink bows. The brown handle of a knife protrudes from his right trouser pocket. His long dark hair hangs untidily over his shoulders. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Hyam & Co, London, on Nov 22 1926 for £30 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/140162 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur grape picker SUBJECTS ------------------- viticulture grapes grapes TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.1 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 Figures of the Enlightenment. A Catalogue of Eighteenth-Century Meissen from a Private Collection ---