IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140185 accession number: C.25-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 12 June 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in turquoise blue, yellow, green, red, brown, and black enamels. The unglazed underside has a small circular ventilation hole towards the back. The peasant is supported by a white tree stump at the back of a low white irregularly shaped base, encrusted with yellowish green ferns and a spray of turquoise-blue fig leaves. He steps forward on his left leg and has both knees slightly bent. His body is bowed by the weight of a straw coloured wicker basket, slung over his shoulders with broad black plaited straps which he supports with his left hand. On top of the basket rests a wooden coop, inside which sits a dappled hen. Under his right arm he carries a black and white kid, its fore and hind legs securely bound. He wears a large black three-cornered hat, from which his unkempt black hair hangs over his neck; a loose white shirt, open at the front; green breeches, held up by red braces; and has bare legs and feet. object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Willy Lissauer, Berlin, from whom boughrt on 5 May 1933 for £26 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/140185 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur peasant SUBJECTS ------------------- farming basket hat coop kid hen basket hat coop kid hen TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed and painted in turquoise blue, yellow, green, red, brown, and black enamels press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1744 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1744 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 7 3/4 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 Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/C_23_1954_C_25_1954.jpg height: 838 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/mid_C_23_1954_C_25_1954.jpg height: 409 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/C_23_1954_C_25_1954.jpg height: 838 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/preview_C_23_1954_C_25_1954.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels