IDENTIFIERS
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id:	140193
accession number:	C.28-1954

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, buff,  brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a small blocked ventilation hole near viewer's back left corner. The rounded square low mound base has a tree stump support in the back left corner, and is decorated on top with applied leaves, a red and white flower, and a blue flower with yellow centre. The porter steps forward onto his right foot and has his left behind him. He looks towards his right, holding out his right hand in front, and grasping the top of a walking stick in his left hand. He has red lips, and curling black hair which is shoulder length at the back, and is partially covered by a black tricorne hat with two short gold straps and a button on its left side. He wears a white shirt, a mauve coat with gold buttons, yellow breeches, white stockings and black shoes with gold buckles. Slung on his back by means of two buff straps over his shoulders, is a brown wooden rack containing a rectangular black parcel with white cords, and an oval buff-coloured box.
object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Heinz Horwitz, Berlin on 11 February 1933, for £25 by Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher; Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140193

PEOPLE
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Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur
Porter




TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, buff,  brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a small blocked ventilation hole near viewer's back left corner
press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1747 - 1747
creation date earliest:	1747
creation date latest:	1747
culture:	18th Century, Mid

CREATORS
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maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory
maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 9

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 18.8

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 8.5



CITATIONS
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Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen
Meissen Figures 1730-1775 The Kaendler Period
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
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