IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140193 accession number: C.28-1954 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 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 ----- 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 --------- 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/140193 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur Porter TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1747 - 1747 creation date earliest: 1747 creation date latest: 1747 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.5 CITATIONS -------- 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 ---