IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42423 accession number: C.24-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in pale green, green, a little yellow and red, pale and dark purple, and pinkish-pale brown. The underside of the roughly circular base is flat and unglazed, and has a ventilation hole near the back. The upper surface has rocaille scrollwork round the front edge. The cook stands with his feet apart behind a small stove on the top of which is a saucepan. He holds the handle with his left hand and tastes some of the contents on the index finger of his right hand. He wears a white cap, a white shirt, a flowered jacket with purple buttons, a green apron, white breeches with two purple tags at the knees, and purple shoes. A white napkin is over his left arm, and a knife projects from the apron on his left side. The scrolls on the edge of the base are picked out in purple. The stove is pale brown brickwork, with a small yellow and red fire, the pan pale purple and the contents yellow with round pinkish-brown pieces in it. object type: Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1970 (Statham Loan 23-1970). Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M.Government in 1990 in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42423 PEOPLE ------------------- cook SUBJECTS ------------------- stove saucepan street stove saucepan street TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1756 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim maker: Reinicke, Peter maker: Huet, Christophe DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 Bow Porcelain Meissen Portrait Figures Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Meissen Figures 1730-1775 The Kaendler Period Sotheby's Sale Catalogue Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 5th October 1976 Fine British Ceramics British Ceramics and Glass, 25th May 1993 The Roy Hogarth Collection of Rare English Figures Figures of the Enlightenment. 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