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Man playing a Violin da Gamba
Factory:
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Kändler, Johann Joachim
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, painted in blue, green, yellow, pale salmon-pink, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The musician is seated on a low rough white stump, on a flat white base, decorated with applied and painted coloured flowers and foliage. His cello rests on the ground between his legs, and as he plays he looks away towards the right, his head inclined to the instrument. His long hair, gathered by a black band, trails down his back. He wears a three cornered black hat, caught up by straps and a gold button, and a short cream coloured coat decorated with mauvy-brown sprays, trimmed with gold. It is split up three times at the back and open at the wrists to show frilled cuffs of his white shirt. He also wears blue breeches with gold buttons and trimmings, white stockings, and black shoes with gold buckles.
History note: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on 23 July 1933, for £36 by Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher (1868-1955); Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 15.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-24) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
18th Century, Mid
Friedrich August III
Production date:
circa
AD 1745
This figure was listed as the sixty-sixth item (unnumbered) in Kaendler’s ‘Taxa’ (record of his overtime work between late 1739 and the end of 1746), and from its position in the list was modelled in 1741. The musical instrument is described as a 'viol du Gamb' ( viola da gamba).
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
( clear)
Decoration
composed of
enamel
gold
Glazing (coating)
Press-moulding
Accession number: C.6-1954
Primary reference Number: 140335
Old object number: 379
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Man playing a Violin da Gamba" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/140335 Accessed: 2024-11-02 18:29:19
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