IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140440 accession number: EC.5-1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in yellowish-green, pale yellow, yellow, pale purple, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilded. The underside is flat and unglazed. The shallow roughly six-sided base is white with three areas dappled in green and yellow. At the back there is a large pale grey pack with pale brown cording against which the figure is supported. The pedlar steps forward on his right foot, supporting his back pack with his left arm, and resting his right on a duck against the larger pack on the ground behind him. A walking stick rests against his hand. He has grey hair, delicately tinted pink cheeks and lips, and black eyes. He wears a pale yellow broad-brimmed hat, a white ruffle round his neck, a white shirt, pale purple jacket, black belt, green breeches and red shoes with yellow bows. The edges of his shirt sleeves and jacket are gilded. His pale brown back pack is covered by a white cloth, and held on by black straps. object type: hard-paste porcelain figure of a pedlar, painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 25 May 1943, lot 94 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140440 PEOPLE ------------------- pedlar SUBJECTS ------------------- duck duck TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in yellowish-green, pale yellow, yellow, pale purple, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilded. The underside is flat and unglazed. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Imperial Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 6.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.5 CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Thirty-fifth Annual Report for the Year 1943 Wiener-Porzellan Sammlung Karl Mayer ---