Tinker from the Auvergne
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Kändler, Johann Joachim
(Modeller)
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze inblue, green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, pale brown, buff, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a small circular ventilation hole near the back. The square low mound base has a low tree stump, and is decorated with applied leaves, with a blue, a yellow and a mauve flower. The tinker faces front, standing on his right leg with his left advanced so that the toe extends over the edge of the base. A buff three-legged cauldron is slung over his right shoulder and he holds the cover in his right hand which he holds level with his diaphragm. In his left hand he carried a brown flat iron. He has shoulder-length black hair, partly covered by a black tricorne hat. He wears a white shirt, a red coat with scattered incised scrolling foliage motifs, and gold buttons, a pale brown apron, white leggings, and black shoes with a gold buckle on the left.
History note: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on 21 April 1933 for £35
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Depth: 10.3 cm
Height: 19 cm
Width: 7.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1954-01-14)
by
Fisher, Lord and Lady
Mid 18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Meissen model no. 1025, modelled probably by J.J. Kaendler after the 'Chaudronier Auvergnat', plate 3 of the first set of 'Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple ou les Cris de Paris', engraved by the comte de Caylus (1692-1765) after drawings by Edmé Bouchardon (1689-1762), published in 1737.
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, pale brown, buff, and black) gold Visible Surfaces composed of glaze ( clear)
Press-moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, pale brown, buff, and black enamels, and gilt.The unglazed underside has a small circular ventilation hole near the back.
Inscription present: circular white paper label with scalloped edge
Accession number: C.30-1954
Primary reference Number: 140203
Model number: 1025
Old catalogue number: 385
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Tinker from the Auvergne"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140203 Accessed: 2022-05-19 22:57:37
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Accession Number: 853
Accession Number: P.271-1954
Accession Number: CM.QC.5365-R
Accession Number: 23.K.5-324
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