IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118353 accession number: C.27-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in yellow, green, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed base has a small round ventilation hole near the back. The rounded square low mound base has a tree stump at the back, and is decorated on top with applied leaves, and a red, a yellow and a mauve flower. The hurdy-gurdy player stands on his left foot with right leg forward. He carries a large white hurdy-gurdy outlined in black, and with his right hand turns the handle of the wheel which sounds the strings, while with his left hand he plays upon the keys which stop the strings and thus obtain the notes. He has long brownish-black hair trailing untidily down his back, and wears a black hat with the brim turned up at the sides, a brown waistcoat with gold buttons, a long collarless white coat with two gold buttons at the top of the two back pleats, yellow breeches, white hose, and black shoes with yellow bows. object type: hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Hyam & Co., London, from whom purchased by Lord Fisher on 22 November 1926 for £35; Cecil Vavasseur, 2nd Baron Fisher of Kilverstone and his wife Jane, Kilverstone Hall, Norfolk LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Fisher Collection creditline: Given by Lord Fisher and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118353 PEOPLE ------------------- street musician SUBJECTS ------------------- hurdy-gurdy flower leaf (plant material) tree stump hurdy-gurdy flower leaf (plant material) tree stump TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, flesh pink, red mauve, dark brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The unglazed base has a small round ventilation hold near the back press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1745 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1745 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Frederick Augustus II (1696-1763) CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Reinicke, Peter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Early Dresden Porcelain made at the Meissen Factory 1735-1747 in the Collection of Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, and Jane, his Wife, of Kilverstone Hall in the County of Norfolk Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1954 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Figürliches Porzellan Die erste Folge der Pariser Ausrufer in Meissner Porzellan The Nyffeler Collection of German Porcelain Edme Bouchardon's 'Cris de Paris': crying food in early modern Paris Figures of the Enlightenment. A Catalogue of Eighteenth-Century Meissen from a Private Collection All Walks of Life: a Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection. Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century ---