IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140293 accession number: C.43-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 2 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, flesh pink, red, purple, greyish-brown, and a little black enamel, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed, except for the flat area round the edge, and has a large oval ventilation hold under the support. The low, rounded, rocky mound base rises up at the back into a low pile of rocks which support the figure. The top is scattered with applied leaves and two flowers: purple and white, and yellow with a purple centre. She stands on her right leg with her left relaxed beside it. She leans back from the waist, looking down towards her right, holding her right hand up to toy with a tress of her greyish-brown hair which hangs over her shoulders. Her left hand rests on her hip. Her head is covered by a white bonnet, fastened under her chin with purple bow, and a quatrefoil 'garnet' pendant on her brow. She wears a white chemise fastened at the neck with a gold brooch set with 'garnets', a three-quarter-length yellow coat with gold buttons, purple trimmings and cross braiding, a white sash, close-fitting white trousers, and red shoes. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: S.B. Joel; sold Christie, Manson & Woods, 29-30 May 1935 Catalogue of the important collection of English and French Furniture, decorative objects and Meissen porcelain formed by the late S.B. Joel Esq., lot 110; Albert Amor, London, from whom purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone on May 30, 1935, for £10. 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/140293 PEOPLE ------------------- Joel, S. J. Persian Lady TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, flesh pink, red, purple, greyish-brown, and a little black enamel, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed, except for the flat area round the edge, and has a large oval ventilation hold under the support press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) 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 maker: Reinicke, Peter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the important collection of English and French Furniture, decorative objects and Meissen porcelain formed by the late S.B. Joel Esq. 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 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures 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 Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Figürliches Porzellan German Porcelain of the 18th Century "Abbildunge des Türkischen Hofes" - auf der Spurensuch nach einer Figurenserie nach Vorlagen von Charles de Ferriol und Chrstoph Weigel British and European Ceramics ---