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Derby Arbor Figure of a Seated Musician Playing a Bagpipe, ca. 1770. Soft-paste porcelain. Dixo ...
Arbor Figure of a Seated Musician Playing a Bagpipe
Derby Arbor Figure of a Seated Musician Playing a Bagpipe, ca. 1770. Soft-paste porcelain. Dixo ...
Derby Arbor Figure of a Seated Musician Playing a Bagpipe, ca. 1770. Soft-paste porcelain. Dixon Gallery and Gardens; Gift of Mrs. Charlotte Stout Hooker, 2008.DA.2.77

Arbor Figure of a Seated Musician Playing a Bagpipe

Manufacturer (English, ca. 1748 onward)
Dateca. 1770
MediumSoft-paste porcelain
DimensionsHeight: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
ClassificationsPORCELAIN
Credit LineDixon Gallery and Gardens; Gift of Mrs. Charlotte Stout Hooker
Object number2008.DA.2.77
DescriptionThe seated bagpiper is wearing a brightly colored and gilt costume. He sits under a gilt-heightened reticulated arbor with applied floral clusters and surmounted by a green-edged cupola. The piece has a stepped scrollwork base heightened in rose, green and gold.

Model number 301 (a reissue of model number 280); originally a candelabrum with flanking branches supporting pierced candle nozzles.
Status
Not on view
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