IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140285 accession number: C.40-1954 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 blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, purple, pale brown and black enamels and gilt; metal (not ferrous) head to pick. The flat, unglazed base has a ventilation hole centrally placed near the back. The square low mound base rises up at the back into a pile of rocks which support the figure. The top of the base is strewn with applied flowers and leaves: a blue convolvulus with yellow centre and three leaves on the viewer's left: a white carnation with purple edges and three leaves between the figure's feet, and a purple and purple edged white flower with yellow stamens and two leaves on the right. The miner stands on his right leg with left advanced, He leans back slightly and in his right hand grasps the handle of a pick-axe, the head of which rests on his right shoulder. His left hand is extended a little way to the side. He wears black pillbox hat with a white upper edge, gold crossed picks on the front, and a green rosette on its left side. He has a short black coat with gold buttons down the front and on both sleeves, white knee breeches, black knee-caps, white stockings, and black shoes with gold buckles. Behind him he has a long curved apron with a pale brown leather lining secured in front with a black pouch, next to which is a case holding two gilded wedges. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from Willy Lissauer in Berlin for £30 on 21 May 1933 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140285 PEOPLE ------------------- miner SUBJECTS ------------------- pick axe mining pick axe mining TECHNIQUES ---------- in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, purple, pale brown and black enamels and gilt; metal (not ferrous) head to pick. The flat, unglazed base has a ventilation hole centrally placed near the back. press-moulded CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1748 - 1748 creation date earliest: 1748 creation date latest: 1748 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.6 CITATIONS -------- Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Betrachtungen zur Folge der Bergmannsfiguren von J.J. Kaendler ---