Lot Essay
There is a polychrome bagpipe player in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
See illustration
See illustration
CIRCA 1750
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A large Dutch Delft figure of a bagpipe player
Circa 1750
(Doedelzakspeler) Naturalistically modelled in relief, inspired by the Meissen Cris de Paris-series, the seated young musician wearing: loose garments, a manganese-red broad-brimmed hat adorned with florettes, a green jacket, a manganese-red pair of trousers and holding a yellow bagpipe, seated on a huge barrel above an hexagonal base marbled in blue
29cm. high
Circa 1750
(Doedelzakspeler) Naturalistically modelled in relief, inspired by the Meissen Cris de Paris-series, the seated young musician wearing: loose garments, a manganese-red broad-brimmed hat adorned with florettes, a green jacket, a manganese-red pair of trousers and holding a yellow bagpipe, seated on a huge barrel above an hexagonal base marbled in blue
29cm. high
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Please note that this item is either Dutch Delft or Delftware, late 18th or early 19th Century