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Peasant playing Bagpipes
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and mottled with blue, green, and manganese-brown oxide colours which have run under the lead glaze.
History note: Mr Collins, a dealer; sold to Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, from whom bought for £5 on 20 March 20, 1915 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
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
Press-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
Old object number: 4114
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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