IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131051 accession number: C.41-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 2 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, dark mauve, red, and greyish-brown enamels and gilt. The concave underside is glazed except for a flat area round the edge and has a round ventilation hole below the figure. The low rocky base rises up a little at the back to support the figure, and is strewn with applied yellowish-green leaves and a yellow, a blue and a pink flower at the front, and a small yellow and a pink at the back. The Sultana leans back slightly, standing on her right foot with her left behind her. With her right hand she toys with a tress of her long greyish-brown hair. Her left hand is extended a little way in front of her. On her head she has a closely wound white cloth which is looped up at the back. Over a white chemise she wears a long pale yellow robe decorated with sprays of dark mauve flowers and foliage, which is fastened above the waist with two gold buttons, and has a dark pink collar and flaps at the wrists. Over this she has a long blue short-sleeved coat with white fur edging and lining. Around her waist she has a wide, jewelled red belt, and on her feet, red slippers object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Willy Lissauer, Berlin from whom purchased on 23 March, 1935 for £55 by Cecil Vavasseur, 2nd Baron Fisher of Kilverstone; Lord and Lady Fisher 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/131051 PEOPLE ------------------- Lissauer, Willy sultana TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, painted in in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, dark mauve, red, and greyish-brown enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1749 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1749 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam title: The National Art Collections Fund at the Fitzwilliam Museum, An Exhibition to celebrate the Fund's 85th Anniversary 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 The National Art Collections Fund at the Fitzwilliam Museum, An Exhibition to celebrate The Fund's 85th Anniversary Treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum 1848-1998, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Collecting Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant, tirées sur les tableaux peints d'après nature en 1707 et 1708 par les ordres de M. de Ferriol, Ambassadeur du Roi à la Porte. Et gravées en 1712 et 1713 par les soins de Mr Le Hay Wahrest und neueste Abbildung des Türchisches Hofes Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Les Sultans de Porcelaine du XVIIIe siècle "Abbildunge des Türkischen Hofes" - auf der Spurensuch nach einer Figurenserie nach Vorlagen von Charles de Ferriol und Chrstoph Weigel Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume II, Earthenware ---