IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140301 accession number: C.45-1954 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, yellowish green, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, mauve, purple, grey, and a little black enamels. The flat underside is unglazed (no ventilation hole). The circular low rocky base rises up a little at the back to support the figure. The top is decorated with applied leaves and flowers: at the back, a blue and yellow, and a yellow and purple each with two leaves; at the front, two purple and white flowers with yellow centre, each with two leaves. The lady stands on her right foot with her left slightly behind it. She looks towards her left, and has her left arm akimbo, and her right slightly bent and extended to the side. Her grey hair is covered by a pale blue conical cap with a white serrated border, white stripes radiating from the top, and a purple bow on each side. She wears a pale purple vest with a purple trimming and bow at the neck, a white skirt with a blue belt, and a flowing three-quarter length mauve coat with a pink lining, and two yellow bows on each side, white stockings and yellow shoes. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from A. Wittekind, Paris, on June 27 1934 for £32 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/140301 PEOPLE ------------------- Wittekind, A. Persian Lady 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 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Early Dresden Porcelain made at the Meissen Factory 1735-1747 in the Collection of Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, and Jane, his Wife, of Kilverstone Hall in the County of Norfolk Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures 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 ---