IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140115 accession number: C.12-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels.He stands with his right leg advanced, supported by a white stump on a low white base encrusted with bold coloured flowers and foliage. Under his left arm he carries the bag of a huge double pipe Bag-pipe, which he supports with his left hand and plays on with the fingers of his right hand. The mouthpiece is close to his lips, which are closed. His black hair shows under a large white hat, with a red ribbon and a yellow favour. He wears a long yellow coat with gold buttons over a blue waistcoat, both trimmed with gold and open at the front, disclosing a white shirt with pink cuffs, secured round the waist by a pink band and a pink bow above it. He also wears close fitting 'jodhpur' breeches, and black shoes with black bows. Over his back falls a voluminous white cloak, caught up behind his right shoulder. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on July 23 1933, for £50 by Cecil Vavasseur, 2nd Baron Fisher; 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/140115 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur bagpiper SUBJECTS ------------------- music bagpipe bagpipe TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1745 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1745 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.5 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 Dresden China: An Introduction to the Study of Meissen Porcelain Zur “Taxa Kaendlers” Celebrating Kaendler 1706-1775, Meissen Porcelain Sculpture Die autonomen figürlich Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, 2 volumes ---