Lot Essay
For a related bagpipe player see J.D. van Dam, Delffse Porceleyne, Zwolle, 2004, p. 172 ill. 115.
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1760-1785, ATTRIBUTED TO DE PORCELEYNE BIJL (JUSTUS BROUWER)
Details
A Dutch Delft figure of a bagpipe player
1760-1785, ATTRIBUTED TO DE PORCELEYNE BIJL (JUSTUS BROUWER)
Modelled as a chap wearing a wide-brimmed black summer hat with gilt bow, a lilac vest, red trousers, black buckled shoes, holding a yellow bagpipe with both hands, seated on a striped barrel, on octagonal marbled base (chips and lacking mouthpiece of bagpipe)
26.1 cm. high
1760-1785, ATTRIBUTED TO DE PORCELEYNE BIJL (JUSTUS BROUWER)
Modelled as a chap wearing a wide-brimmed black summer hat with gilt bow, a lilac vest, red trousers, black buckled shoes, holding a yellow bagpipe with both hands, seated on a striped barrel, on octagonal marbled base (chips and lacking mouthpiece of bagpipe)
26.1 cm. high
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