Shepherd Bagpiper with Dog
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Shepherd Bagpiper with Dog, painted in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in a little blue, green, yellow, dark orange, pink, dark pink, red, pale greyish-purple, pale brown, and dark brown enamels. The flat, unglazed base has a circular ventilation hole. The shepherd stands on a low oval mound with a waist-high tree stump on his right. He stands on his right leg with his left extended to the side so that its toe is over the edge of the base. His head is turned to his right. He has the bag of the bagpipes under his left arm and holds the chaunter in both hands. He wears a pale brown, broad-brimmed hat with a dark orange band and a rosette on the turned up side of the brim; a white shirt, and a flowered jacket with a pink lining; pale yellow breeches with dark orange edging and bows at the knees; white stockings, and pale purple shoes with orange bows. In front of the stump and his right leg sits a pale purple and white terrier dog sits with its head turned to its right.
History note: Sale at Stansted, Essex; Stanley Woolston, Cambridge from whom purchased on 30 January, 1924 for £8 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Bequeathed by Dr J.L.W. Glaisher
Height: 15.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, green, yellow, dark orange, pink, dark pink, red, pale greyish-purple, pale brown, and dark brown enamels)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in a little blue, green, yellow, dark orange, pink, dark pink, red, pale greyish-purple, pale brown, and dark brown enamels
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: a rectangular label with upper corners cut, and blue line round the edge
Accession number: C.3052-1928
Primary reference Number: 41596
Old object number: 4472
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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