IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140429 accession number: EC.33-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 6 November 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pale mauve, red, pale brown, and grey enamels, and lightly gilded. The unglazed base has a small circular ventilation hole to left of centre. The approximately circular base has a frilled edge on the viewer's left, and on the right, overlapping shells, and a scroll picked out in gold. The lady steps forward on her left foot, and has her left arm advanced to support the stick of her green parasol. Her pale grey hair is drawn up into a top-knot, and she has a blue head band at the front of her head. She wears a high-necked, long-sleeved pale mauve tunic with yellow edges, a green belt, and a long white skirt scattered with sprays of polychrome flowers and foliage. The tip of the yellow shoe on her right foot is just visible below the hem of her skirt. object type: hard-paste porcelain, painte in enamels, and gilded title: figure 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/140429 PEOPLE ------------------- Japanese Lady SUBJECTS ------------------- parasol parasol TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pale mauve, red, pale brown, and grey enamels, and lightly gilded. The unglazed base has a small circular ventilation hole to left of centre. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.6 CITATIONS -------- Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen German Porcelain All Walks of Life: a Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection. Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century ---