IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140273 accession number: C.38-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 2 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted over glaze in yellowish-green, ruddy flesh pink, pale mauve, red, brown and balck enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed and has a ventilation hole below the support. The low rocky rectangular base rises up at the back into a heap of rocks which support the figure. The top is strewn with applied leaves and flowers, two yellow and four pale mauve. The miner stands on his left leg and steps forward on his right. His body is tilted back and to his right, and he holds a triangle in his left hand and a baton to strike it in his left. He has a ruddy complexion and black curling hair, partly covered by a green pill box hat with a gold top edge, gold crossed pick axes on the front, and a yellow rosette on its left side. He wears a white short coat with a pleated frill, gold buttons down the front and on the sleeves, and red and gold epaulettes, a red waistcoat, white breeches and stockings, and black knee caps, and shoes with gold buckles. Behind him he has a long curved black apron with a brown leather lining, secured at the front by 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, on 6 April 1933 for £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/140273 PEOPLE ------------------- Lissauer, Willy miner SUBJECTS ------------------- triangle triangle TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.7