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Shepherd Bagpiper with Lamb
Translated as: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Shepherd Bagpiper with Lamb, press-moulded, and painted in polychrome enamels.
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Shepherd Bagpiper with Lamb, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, red, pale greyish-brown, brown, and black.
The approximately round base has a tree stump at the back. The shepherd stands on his right leg leaning back against the stump, with his left leg extended to his left so that the foot is half way over the edge of the base. He has his bagpipes under his left arm and holds the pipe with both hands. His head is turned to his right. He has brown hair and ruddy cheeks. He wears a black hat, white shirt, blue jacket with yellow lining, white breeches decorated with puce flowers, and black shoes with puce bows. The bagpipes are yellow. On the ground to his right there is a recumbent pale greyish-brown and white lamb wearing a collar with a short yellow stick at the front. On the ground in front of him there is a yellow flower and three leaves, and further back a pink flower and two leaves.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 14.5 cm
Width: 7.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Although this Shepherd and the one produced at Derby may have been based on a Meissen model, there were English sculptural equivalents. The figure is reminiscent of the lead Piping Shepherd Boy with dog, attributed to Jan Van Nost, in the garden at Canons Ashby, Northants, and at Powis Castle, near Welshpool, and there may have been other possible models among the 'shepherds, shepherdesses, bagpipers and pipers' which were stocked over a long period by John Cheere and mentioned by an anonymous writer in 1772,
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, red, pale greyish-brown, brown, and black)
Details
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted in polychrome enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.58-1932
Primary reference Number: 41896
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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