IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131071 accession number: C.8-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelian, press-moulded, glazed, painted in yellow, flesh-pink, pink, puce, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The cook is seated on a low rough white stump on a flat base, with her right foot extending over the edge. In her right hand she holds the larded saddle and hind quarters of a hare, with an oblong pale-cream larding board resting on her lap, on which lies some lard and a larding needle. In her heft hand she holded the gilded handle of a tool. She wears a pink cap with white frill, fastened at the back by gold straps with a green bow, and a bead necklace with a purple bow. Her yellow bodice has a mauve border, laced in front and split behind, and sits over a low white chemise with short flowing sleeves. She also wears a pink and flowered skirt with gold trimming, white stockings, and black shoes with gold buckles. object type: hard-paste porcelain figure of a seated female cook painted in enamels and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Willy Lissauer, Berlin on 5 May 1933 for £40 by Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher (1868-1955) ; Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone 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/131071 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur cook SUBJECTS ------------------- knife hare knife hare TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, painted in enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1760 culture: third quarter of 18th century CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim maker: Eberlein, Johann Friedrich DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) 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 1746-1751 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 Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 Fine Pottery and Porcelain Meissner Porzellan des Achtezehnten Jahrhunderts 1710-1750 German Porcelain of the 18th Century European Ceramics including Porcelain and Faience from the Collection of the late Max Hoffmann of Basel All Walks of Life: a Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection. Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century ---