A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PIEDMONTESE BAGPIPER modelled by J.J. Kändler, in black hat with a yellow plume, long white cloak, shirt and leggings and blue waistcoat, playing the bagpipes and standing striding across a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (cracked though one leg, tree-stump and cloak, cracked and chipped where the pipes join his knee, his right little finger repaired, chips to flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1745
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PIEDMONTESE BAGPIPER modelled by J.J. Kändler, in black hat with a yellow plume, long white cloak, shirt and leggings and blue waistcoat, playing the bagpipes and standing striding across a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (cracked though one leg, tree-stump and cloak, cracked and chipped where the pipes join his knee, his right little finger repaired, chips to flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1745
22cm. high
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Taken from an engraving by J.Dumont after Daullé; for a similar example see Len and Yvonne Adams, op. cit., p. 54