IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140292 accession number: C.42-1954 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, mauve, red, brown, and black enamels. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small central ventilation hole. The rounded low rocky base rises up at the back into a heap of rocks which support the figure. The top is decorated with applied leaves and two flowers: white, red and yellow, and yellow, white and green. The man stands on his left leg with his right extended behind him. He leans back from the waist and looks towards his left with his left hand held level with his abdomen, and his right arm bent and the hand grasping the handle of a brown walking stick. He has a black moustache, and on his head has a bluish-green turban, with a mauve fan-like projection on top, and a gold circlet around the front. He wears a white three-quarter-length coat, with a mauve shawl collar and lining, yellow cross bands and buttons, a red sash into which is tucked a dagger, white close-fitting trousers, and yellow shoes. A scimitar with a yellow hilt terminating in a bird's head, and a black scabbard is slung on two white straps on on his left side object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from Frau Elfriede Langeloh, March 1 1934, for £25 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/140292 PEOPLE ------------------- Langeloh, Elfriede Persian SUBJECTS ------------------- scimitar dagger walking stick scimitar dagger walking stick TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in bluish-green, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, brown, and black enamels. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small central ventilation hole press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10 CITATIONS -------- Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant, tirées sur les tableaux peints d'après nature en 1707 et 1708 par les ordres de M. de Ferriol, Ambassadeur du Roi à la Porte. Et gravées en 1712 et 1713 par les soins de Mr Le Hay Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Figürliches Porzellan Fine Continental Ceramics from the Collection of the late Siegfried and Lola Kramarsky ---