IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140139 accession number: C.16-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, purple, red, and brown enamels and gilded; the flat underside is unglazed. The head is made separately and is balanced on the shoulders by means of a rod projecting on each side of the neck.The bottom of the neck is attached to a cylindrical lead weight. A gilt-metal mount with engraved decoration encircles the neck edge of the body. The low mound base is square with rounded corners, and is decorated on top with applied green leaves and two yellow flowers wth purple centres. The boy stands on his left foot with his right leg raised and bent at the knee, his right hand is at his side, and his left hand is raised. He wears a cabbage leaf hat over his bald head, and has brown eyebrows and eyes, pink cheeks and red mouth. He wears a long white robe with scattered polychrome floral sprays and dark pink sleeve linings, with a V-shaped opening at the front. A yellow cape is draped around his shoulders, and he has yellow and pink shoes. A narrow gold line runs round the edge of his sleeves, the lower edge of his rbe, and the top of his right shoe. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilded, with separately made nodding head title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Sir Richard Jessel STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140139 TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Catalogue of Important Continental Porcelain and Faience The Rita and Frits Markus Collection of European Ceramics and Enamels, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Fine Continental Ceramics from the Collection of the late Siegfried and Lola Kramarsky The Distinguished Collection of a Lady Fine Early and Later European Ceramics European Ceramics, 26th November 2002 The European Porcelain and Faience of the Mimara Museum British and Continental Ceramics Important French Furniture & Decorations, European Ceramics and Carpets ---