IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140356 accession number: C.7-1954 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, flesh-pink, red, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The cook is seated on a reddish-brown brick pier, on a reddish-brown tiled base. With his left hand he holds up a black uncooked ham, in his right hand he holds a red bowl. He wears a white wig, fastened at the back with a black bow, and a white frilled shirt. Over this he wears a white double breasted coat with white buttons and frilled cuffs, open at the beck and split at the back. Over the coat, he wears a white apron, from which protrudes the black and gold handle of a knife. He also wears blue breeches with gold buttons, white stockings, and black shoes with gold buckles. A pair with a female cook (C.8-1954) object type: hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, flesh, red, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on 5 May, 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/140356 PEOPLE ------------------- Fisher, Cecil Vavasseur TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, flesh, red, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim maker: Eberlein, Johann Friedrich DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The National Art Collections Fund at the Fitzwilliam Museum, An Exhibition to celebrate the Fund's 85th Anniversary CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Early Dresden Porcelain made at the Meissen Factory 1746-1751 in the Collection of Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, and Jane, his Wife, of Kilverstone Hall in the County of Norfolk The National Art Collections Fund at the Fitzwilliam Museum, An Exhibition to celebrate The Fund's 85th Anniversary German Porcelain of the 18th Century Continental Ceramics, 5 October 1987 British and Continental Ceramics All Walks of Life: a Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection. Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_7_1954.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 528 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_7_1954.jpg height: 720 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_7_1954.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 528 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_7_1954.jpg height: 360 pixels width: 250 pixels