The music lesson

Unknown (German)

Porzellanmanufaktur Frankenthal (1755-1799) (workshop of)

Item type:

decorative art

Height:

21.8 cm  (8 9/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

hard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration

Place of creation:

Deutschland

Description

From museum website:
Man and woman seated under a vase of flowers; the man has purple clothes and the woman a yellow dress with sprigs of green; both have musical instruments. [Woman plays a hurdy-gurdy, man has a bagpipe on his lap; a book with musical notation lies open on the ground between them.]

Iconclass

48CC753
more than one musician with instrument - CC - 'concert champetre'
48CC7314
hurdy-gurdy - CC - out of doors
48CC7354
bagpipe, musette - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Hurdy-gurdy [3305]
Bagpipe [3746]

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5970