IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140306 accession number: C.48-1954 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 blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, pale brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside of the base is concave and glazed, apart from a flat area round the edge, and has a large oval ventilation hole under the support. The low, round rocky base rises up at the back into a tree stump which supports the figure. The top is scattered with applied leaves, a purple and white flower, and a red and white flower with yellow centre. The Hungarian stands on his right leg with his left extended behind him. His head is turned to his right, and he holds out his bent right arm in front of him, and in his left, which rests on his sash, holds his hat. He has short grey hair, black eyebrows, and a bushy black moustache, and wears a white short jacket with gold edging and buttons, and yellow flaps at the wrists, a green and gold sash, white trousers, and yellow top boots. Over his shoulders hangs a blue cape with a collar and lining of brown nd white fur, gold frogging, and gold ties. His hat is red with a similar fur edging. 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 161;Albert Amor, London, from whom purchased by Cecil Vavasseur, 2nd Baron Fisher of Kilverstone on May 30, 1935, for £10; Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone Hall, Norfolk 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/140306 PEOPLE ------------------- Hungarian TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, pale brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside of the base is concave and glazed, apart from a flat area round the edge, and has a large oval ventilation hole under the support. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1749 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1749 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.8 dimension: Height units: in value: 8 3/4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- 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 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 Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Important French and Continental Furniture and Decorations, European Works of Art, Ceramics ..., 24-25 October 2002 ---