IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140316 accession number: C.5-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 November 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in turqjoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, red, purple, pale brown and black enamels. She stands against a white stump, on a low base decorated with applied large coloured flowers and foliage. Suspended by two plaited bands, which pass over her shoulders, she carries on her back a white pannier in which rests a brown bird cage containing two white birds. With her left hand she holds in front of her another similar cage, also containing two birds. She wears a close fitting pointed black bonnet, fastened under her chin with a black bow, a white shirt, a light green bodice with a white front laced with pink, a red petticoat, a white apron, white stockings, and black shoes. Round her buttocks she wears a broad black strap. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on 5 April 1933, for £40 by Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher (1868-1955); 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/140316 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur bird-catcher's wife SUBJECTS ------------------- bird cage bird cage TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Reinicke, Peter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 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 Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen Early Meissen Figures, The Fisher Collection Lord Fisher's Collection of English Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Die autonomen figürlich Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, 2 volumes ---