
Cleveland Museum of Art
Figure of the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de musette)
Vincennes Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-7a4d6efb7317
- Date
- 1748–52
- Medium
- unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
- Culture
- France, Vincennes
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136534
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Although a few Vincennes porcelain figures exist that are glazed, the royal factory adopted at an early date the practice of producing unglazed biscuit figures that, because of the purity of their material, resemble marble figurines. The fashion for biscuit figures first introduced at Vincennes quickly spread through Europe.
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- Credit line
- The Norweb Collection
- Provenance
- R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
18th Century Porcelain FigurinesThese objects are decorative ceramic figures and figure groups made from soft-paste or hard-paste porcelain during the 18th century, produced by major European porcelain factories including Meissen, Sèvres, Derby, Chelse
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