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Description: | Artist: Bow Porcelain Manufactory, factory; Date(s): circa 1755 - 1760; Classification(s): soft-paste porcelain, figure, press-moulding, soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted in polychrome enamels; Acquisition: given by Dickson, W.D., Mrs, 1932, Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson [C.58-1932]
Description: 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. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | figure Bow Porcelain Manufactory soft-paste porcelain | Temporal: | name=mid-18th Century; start=1755; end=1760 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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