IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140269 accession number: C.35-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 2 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in bluish-green, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh pink, pale red, mauve, pale brown, grey and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole below the support near the back. The square, low rocky base rises up at the viewer's left of the back into a pile of rocks. The top is decorated with applied flowers each with three yellowish-green leaves: a white, mauve and yellow carnation on the viewer's left, and at centre front, and a yellow with black centre on the right. The mine superintendant stands on his left foot with his right turned outwards beside it and his left knee relaxed. He turns towards his right, and leans back slightly. In his right hand he holds a small gold axe. and in his left, a bluish-green pillbox hat with a gold-bordered flap on the front and a yellow rosette on its left side. He has a long pale grey curling wig which falls down onto his shoulders, and wears a short white jacket with pleated flounce, and gold edgings and buttons down the front and on the sleeves, white breeches and stockings, black knee caps, and black shoes with gold buckles. Behind he wears a large curved black leather apron with a pale brown leather lining, secured in front under a black pouch. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, May 5, 1933 for £40 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/140269 PEOPLE ------------------- Lissauer, Willy miner SUBJECTS ------------------- axes (tools) hat mining axes (tools) hat mining TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim maker: Reinicke, Peter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.5 CITATIONS -------- Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Catalogue of Fine Continental Porcelain Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Catalogue of Continental Pottery and POrcelain Fine Continental Pottery and Porcelain and Turkish Pottery Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz Kostbar wie Gold: Porzellan und Glas im Deutschen Bergbau-Museum British and Continental Ceramics Fine Early and Later European Ceramics Betrachtungen zur Folge der Bergmannsfiguren von J.J. Kaendler Mining Porcelain from Meissen ---