IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140217 accession number: C.31-1954 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, dark cream, flesh pink, red, several shades of brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small circular ventilation hole near the back. The low square mound base is decorated with applied leaves and two blue flowers with yellow centres. The knife seller stands on his right leg with his left advanced slightly to his left, with the toe projecting over the edge. He faces front, and points with his right hand to a mottled brown case balanced on his left arm, which is filled with black knives, scissors, a hook, a pair of spectacles, and a comb, held in position by white straps. He has shoulder-length curling greyish hair, and wears a white shirt, a red waistcoat with gold buttons, a white coat with wide cuffs, side pleats, and gold buttons, yellow breeches, white stockings and black shoes with gold buttons. His black tricorne hat is held in his right hand below the case. On the ground behind him rests a tall mottled brown cabinet containing six draws with black knobs,and fitted on the back with two dark cream carrying straps. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by Cecil Vavasseur, 2nd Lord Fisher from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on 23 July 1933, for £30; 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 (now The Art Fund) STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140217 PEOPLE ------------------- Lissauer, Willy Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur knife seller SUBJECTS ------------------- selling knife scissors knife scissors TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, dark cream, flesh pink, red, several shades of brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small circular ventilation hole near the back. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1750 CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Reinicke, Peter maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment 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 German Porcelain Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München European Ceramics, 26th November 2002 Meissen Figures 1730-1775 The Kaendler Period Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment 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. 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