IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140272 accession number: C.37-1954 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 green, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed and has a round ventilation hole under the support. The square, low mound base rises up at the back into a heap of rocks, and the front has three groups of applied leaves, the one on the viewer’s right surrounding a red, white and yellow flower. The luteplayer stands on his left foot with his right relaxed behind it. His mouth is open as he sings, and he leans back and turns slightly to his right, holding his lute in both hands. He has grey curling hair, over which is a pillbox hat with a green crown and pink sides decorated on the front with gold crossed picks, and on its left side with a yellow rosette. He wears a white coat with a pleated frill, and gold buttons down the front and on the sleeves, a white waistcoat, white breeches and stockings, black knee caps and black shoes with gold buckles. Behind him he has a long rounded black apron with a brown leather lining, secured at the front with a black pouch. The lute is brown with a black peg, and gold strings. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchaed by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on 5 May 193for £30 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/140272 PEOPLE ------------------- Lissauer, Willy miner SUBJECTS ------------------- lute singing lute singing TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, red, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt; the unglazed underside has a ventilation hole near the back press-moulded CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1748 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1748 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9 CITATIONS -------- Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Betrachtungen zur Folge der Bergmannsfiguren von J.J. Kaendler Mining Porcelain from Meissen ---