IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140424 accession number: EC.31-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pale and dark brown, grey, and black enamels, and lightly gilt. The unglazed underside has a circular ventilation hold near the back. The approximatelycircular low mound base is decoratied on its top with three groups of applied green leaves and at the front with a blue and yellow flower. At the back there is a square structure of redish-brown bricks which supports the figure. The cook stands on his left foot with his right leg extended to his right side. In his left hand he holds a large dish with a gold edge, containing a raised pie containing mushrooms, and in his right hand holds a mushroom (?). He has brown hair tied back in a black bag with a bow, delicately painted features, a white shirt and coat, black breeches with a gold buckle at the right knee, and black shoes with gold buckles. A gold-handled knife is tucked into an apron draped across his front object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before Dr F.R. Cowper-Reed LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr F.R. Cowper-Reed Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140424 PEOPLE ------------------- cook SUBJECTS ------------------- cooking TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pale and dark brown, grey, and black enamels, and lightly gilt. The unglazed underside has a circular ventilation hold near the back press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1748 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1748 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.6 CITATIONS -------- Meissen Figures 1730-1775 The Kaendler Period All Walks of Life: a Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection. Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century ---