IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140174 accession number: C.2-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 November 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in enamels. The fisherman stands on a low white base encrusted with flowers and foliage and is supported at the back by a tall white stump. With his left hand, he holds in front of him the handle of a white fishing net containing several fish, in his right he holds a fish which he has just taken out of the net. He wears a white straw hat with an upturned peak, a white shirt with turned up sleeves, open in the front, and putty coloured trousers rolled up above the knees. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from J. Rochelle Thomas, London on 18 March 1933, for £14 by Cecil, 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/140174 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur fisherman SUBJECTS ------------------- fishing fishing net fishing fishing net TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing 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: 19.7 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 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 ---