IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140307 accession number: C.49-1954 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, purple, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed. The rounded low rocky base is decorated round the edge with applied leaves and flowers: white, purple and yellow: white, blue and yellow: white and yellow with purple centre, white and purple, and white, blue and yellow. The Bulgarian stands on his right leg and has his left extended behind him. He leans back from the waist and looks towards his right holding in his right hand a walking stick which rests on his right shoulder. His left arm is bent and extended to his left. He has a grey beard and red lips. He wears a red hat with a white and grey fur edging, a open-necked pink tunic decorated with purple and gold foliage, a white sash decorated with diagonal pairs of gold stripes alternating with flowerheads, a long yellow coat with a grey lining, blue breeches, white stockings and lack shoes with purple lacing on top. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby, London, 23 October 1951 for £150; 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone 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/140307 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 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures 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 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 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Catalogue of Fine English and Continental Pottery and Porcelain ---