IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140431 accession number: EC.34-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 14 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green yellow, flesh pink, pale mauve, lilac, red, reddish-brown, grey and black enamels, and gilt. The concave underside has an open-ended oval support around the central ventilation hole, and another ventilation hole outside the support. The oval low mound base has gold rococo scrolls and frills round its edge, and in the centre, a tall tree with six branches bearing applied leaves and cherries. The spaces between the figures are strewn with applied flowers and leaves. A ladder is leaning up against the back of the tree, and a boy astride one branch is picking cherries. He wears a black hat, brown jacket with gold buttons and yellow cuffs, and lilac breeches. A small boy eating a cherry is seated on the ground beside the ladder. He wears a yellow jacket, white shirt, and mauve breeches, and leans on a mauve hat containing three cherries, which is perched on a low tree stump beside him. A gentleman sits on a low stump on the left of the front of the tree, holding up a cherry to drop into the apron of a lady standing beside him. A basket full of cherries lies on the ground between them. The man wears a pale mauve coat edged with gold, a flowered waistcoat, and lilac breeches, with white stockings and black shoes with gold buckles. A black tricorn hat is under his right arm. His companion has a double ruffle round her neck, a lilac sack dress over a floral petticoat, and white shoes with red ties. object type: hard-paste porcelain group painted in polychrome enamels title: figure group LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr F.R. Cowper Reed Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140431 SUBJECTS ------------------- tree fruit picking tree fruit picking TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green yellow, flesh pink, pale mauve, lilac, red, reddith-brown, grey and lack enamels, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed and has a central support formed by a vertical strip curved into an open-ended oval shape around the central ventilation hole, and another smaller ventilation hole outside the support. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1766 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1766 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim maker: Boucher, François DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15 CITATIONS -------- François Boucher Meissen Meissner Porzellanplastik des 18. Jahrhunderts; die Sammlung der Ermitage Musée Cognacq-Jay, II, Porcelaines Continental Ceramics ---