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Figure of a bagpiper, soft-paste porcelain, sitting on a tree stump applied with trailing flowers, on a four-footed scrolled rococo base; enamelled and gilded, the jacket blue with pink lining, gold piping and a yellow flower applied to the right shulder, the cap black with white ribbon, the breeches white with puce flowers, black shoes, the bagpipes in pale yellow, the flowers yellow, blue and puce with green leaves, the base picked out in puce
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39524
Creation/Production
Bow Porcelain Works
Date: 1760 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 27/8/2013
Given anonymously
Measurements
Height
(cm): 21.3
Width
(cm): 11.3
Depth
(cm): 10.4
Height
(in): 8
Width
(in): 4
Depth
(in): 4
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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