IDENTIFIERS
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id:	140217
accession number:	C.31-1954

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, 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
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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
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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 (now The Art Fund)

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140217

PEOPLE
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Lissauer, Willy
Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur
knife seller

SUBJECTS
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selling
knife
scissors
knife
scissors



TECHNIQUES
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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
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1750
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1750

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

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 9

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 18.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 10



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
CITATIONS
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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. Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century
Die autonomen figürlich Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, 2 volumes
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