IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 98162 accession number: C.7-1995 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 29 November 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Campana-shaped vase. Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in blue, red, yellow, shades of grey and black enamels and gilt. Campana-shaped. The hollow, circular foot is moulded with bat's-wing fluting and rises in the middle to an anulet. It then flares upwards and outwards into an everted flange decorated with two rows of different leaves in relief. The rounded lower part of the body is decorated with leaves in relief and the lower parts of the handles are moulded with formal foliage. Above is a narrow vertical band above which the sides rise vertically and then flare outwards to the everted rim. The main field of the vase is decorated in shades of grey with a frieze showing the Emperor Trajan seated in front of six columns, accompanied by three men in togas and one in a short tunic. Below, continuing round the vase, is a queue of men, women and children. Below at the front in gold letters is the title 'ALIMENTA ITALIAE.' followed in black letters by an inscription which continues round the vase 'FOEMINARUM FOECUNDITATI GENITORUMQ: SPEI CONSULVIT PUBLICUS PARENS PER UNIVERSAM ITALIAM PUERIS PUELLISQ: ULPIIS ALIMENTARIIS INSTITUTIS.' Round the rim is a border of yellow corn sheaves and red cornucopiae with bunches of grapes dangling between them, separated by foliated scrolls from which are suspended blue lamps. Inside the rim there is a border of gilt, tapering vertical lines, and the relief ornament on the lower part is gilt. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: The vase was presented in 1816 to Rudolf Ackermann (1764-1834), a native of Saxony, on behalf of the King of Saxony by the ambassador in London, Baron St. Just; by descent to Edgar Ackermann, 1920; Russell Button, Chicago; Rudi Leuser, Grand Rapids; Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd, 1986; Throgmorton Trust PLC, London. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Sir Richard Jessel Fund, and with contributions from the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum and the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98162 PEOPLE ------------------- Ackermann, Rudolph Trajan SUBJECTS ------------------- alimenta alimenta TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in n blue, red, yellow, shades of grey and black enamels and gilt moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1815 - 1816 creation date earliest: 1815 creation date latest: 1816 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Schubert, Johann David maker: Schaufuss, Heinrich maker: Wollmann, Christian Traugott DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 43 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Metropole London, Macht und Glanz einer Welstadt 1800-1840 title: Recent Acquisitions (1995) title: Fifteen Years of the National Art Collections Fund CITATIONS -------- Return of the Meissen Vase The Fitzwilliam Museum Annual Report, 1995 National Art Collections Fund Review 1995 Metropole London, Macht und Glanz einer Welstadt 1800-1840 The economy of the Roman Empire Angaben zu personalien bei der Königlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen aus den Jahren 1800 bis 1860 Biographische Daten der Meissner Manufakturischen des 18 Jahrhunderts --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_7_1995.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 624 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_7_1995.jpg height: 609 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_7_1995.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 624 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_7_1995.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels