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Peasant playing Bagpipes
Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
(Pottery)
Cream earthenware, moulded, and mottled with blue, green, and manganese-brown oxide colours which have run under the lead glaze
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 18th Century
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
1760
CE
This rustic bagpiper may have been inspired by a Meissen model wearing a pointed hat or one of the copies of it made at the Longton Hall porcelain factory. It is also reminiscent of an early 17th century French lead-glazed earthenware bagpiper in the Wallace Collection (C.179), but it seems unlikely that it was based on a model of that type, although possibly Bernard Rackham had that in mind when he described this as a 'French Peasant' in the Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection.
Visible Surfaces: composed of lead-glaze ( presumed lead) Decoration: composed of metallic oxides
Moulding : Cream earthenware, moulded in parts, assembled, and mottled with blue, green, and manganese-brown oxide colours which have run under the lead glaze
Accession number: C.830-1928
Primary reference Number: 76192
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Accession Number: M.19-1964
Accession Number: C.13-1954
Accession Number: C.20-1993
Accession Number: 904*3 f.49
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