The itinerant musician

Unknown (British)

Chelsea porcelain factory (active ca. 1745-1784)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
ca. 1756
Height:
20.0 cm  (7 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
soft-paste porcelain

    Item location

  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1955.176]

Description

With a boy at his feet, a standing man wearing a tricorne plays a bagpipe. Three short pipes of similar length emerge from a cylinder at the end of the bag; the player has three fingers on one pipe and two fingers on another.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746] (large bag under right arm)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

2120