A pottery figure of a Bagpiper

CIRCA 1750

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A pottery figure of a Bagpiper
Circa 1750
With incised cream wig, his cream clothes streaked in manganese, grey, brown and yellow, playing the bagpipes and seated on an oval brown mound base (damages and repairs to bagpipes, right foot lacking)
5in. (13cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Bernard Rackham, The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, pl. 60 A, no. 818; Pat Halfpenny, op. cit., p. 24; also Jonathan Horne, Collection of Early English Pottery part VIII (1988), no. 207.

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