Piedmontese Bagpiper
Factory:
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Kändler, Johann Joachim
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels.He stands with his right leg advanced, supported by a white stump on a low white base encrusted with bold coloured flowers and foliage. Under his left arm he carries the bag of a huge double pipe Bag-pipe, which he supports with his left hand and plays on with the fingers of his right hand. The mouthpiece is close to his lips, which are closed.
His black hair shows under a large white hat, with a red ribbon and a yellow favour. He wears a long yellow coat with gold buttons over a blue waistcoat, both trimmed with gold and open at the front, disclosing a white shirt with pink cuffs, secured round the waist by a pink band and a pink bow above it. He also wears close fitting 'jodhpur' breeches, and black shoes with black bows. Over his back falls a voluminous white cloak, caught up behind his right shoulder.
History note: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on July 23 1933, for £50 by Cecil Vavasseur, 2nd Baron Fisher; Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 23.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1745
Modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706-75) in July and August 1741 after a print 'Ce spectacle ambulant' of 1739 by Jean Daullé (1703-1763) after a painting by Jacques Dumont le Roman (1701-1781). The model is listed as the 70th (unnumbered) in Kaendler's 'Taxa' (list of models made in overtime from late 1739 to end of 1746). Meissen model nol. 297.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
Accession number: C.12-1954
Primary reference Number: 140115
Old object number: 395
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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