IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131048 accession number: C.39-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 2 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, flesh pink, red, purple, pale brown, grey and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed. The low, square rocky base rises up at the back into a low mound of rockswhich supports the figure, and is decorated on the top in front of him with three applied flowers each between two leaves, and on the left, three leaves. The miner stands with his right leg forward, his right hand holding a tray of ore on his left shoulder, and his left hand holding a small pick by his side. He has grey curly hair, and a black pillbox hat with a white upper border, gold crossed picks on the front, and yellow rosette on the proper left side. He wears a white frill round his neck, a black short coat with gold buttons down the front and on the sleeves, white breeches, black knee caps, white stockings and black shoes with gold buttons. Behind him, he has a long curved black apron with a pale brown leather lining, secured in front by a black pouch, next to which is a holder containing two brown and gold wedges. A sword (end of scabbard missing) with a gold handle is slung on a white strap on his left side. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on 6 April 1933 for £30. 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 and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131048 PEOPLE ------------------- miner SUBJECTS ------------------- ore mining ore mining TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, flesh-pink, a little dark puce, red, pale brown, greyish-brown, and black enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) 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: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- Treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Betrachtungen zur Folge der Bergmannsfiguren von J.J. Kaendler Mining Porcelain from Meissen Fine British and European Ceramics & Glass ---