IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38524 accession number: C.2-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 14 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, painted overglaze in blue, red, flesh pink, pale and dark brown, grey, and black enamel colours, and gilt (a little). The unglazed underside has a round ventilation hole near the back. The square base has straight sides and is undecorated. Winter stands with his left knee relaxed and his arms crossed in front of his chest, leaning forward slightly. He has a long grey beard, and wears a blue cloak lined with brown and white fur, which falls down from his head to the ground at the back and is held up across his loins and upper legs in his right hand. On his right, projecting partly over the edge of the base, there is a covered bowl with a fire on top of it, and on his left, is a nude, brown-haired putto cutting wood with an axe. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Michael Mosely; sold Sotheby's, 16 July 1946, Catalogue of Rare Meissen Porcelain with Factory and Hausmaler Decoration, Continental and English Porcelain and Enamels, lot 149. Purchased from H.E. Backer, London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by his colleagues of the Fitzwilliam Museum in memory of D.E. Nunn STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38524 PEOPLE ------------------- Nunn, Derrick E. Winter putto SUBJECTS ------------------- winter axe (tool) wood chopping winter axe (tool) wood chopping TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, red, flesh pink, pale and dark brown, grey, and black enamel colours, and lightly gilt on the edges of the bowl only press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Eberlein, Johann Friedrich maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Rare Meissen Porcelain with Factory and Hausmaler Decoration, Continental and English Porcelain, and Enamels Continental Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century Pottery and Porcelain 1700-1914 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Die autonomen figürlich Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, 2 volumes Austellung aus Sechs Jahrhunderten Figürliches Porzellan Early English and Continental Ceramics British and Continental Ceramics --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_2_1947_1_201503_mf22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_c_2_1947_1_201503_mf22_dc2.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_2_1947_1_201503_mf22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_c_2_1947_1_201503_mf22_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_2_1947_2_201503_mf22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_c_2_1947_2_201503_mf22_dc2.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_2_1947_2_201503_mf22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_c_2_1947_2_201503_mf22_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels