IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140184 accession number: C.24-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-past porcelain painted in blue, green, yellow, cream, flesh pink, red, brown, and black enamels, with a little gilding. The vineyard proprietor is seated on an irregular white rock, on a low white oval base, encrusted with coloured flowers and foliage. His left leg is drawn back, and between his knee rests a cream coloured wicker basket of inverted ball shape, the point supported by a smaller rock. The wicker lid is open, and with his right hand he points to a large bunch of blue grapes, hanging with one leaf from the top of the lid. In addition, there is a removable perforated cover which fits over the basket. In his left hand he holds a stout stick, which rests on the ground close to his left foot. He wears a wide black hat; a long dark brown coat with gold buttons and white lining, slit up the back and open at the front to show his white shirt; white breeches; white stockings, and black shoes. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on May 15 1934, for £30 by Cecil, 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/140184 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur SUBJECTS ------------------- viticulture CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.1 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 All Walks of Life: a Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection. Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century ---