D2449. Polychrome Figure of a Seated Bagpipe Player

Marked VDuijn for Johannes van Duijn, owner of De Porceleyne Schotel (The Porcelain Dish) factory from 1764 to 1772, or his widow Van Duijn-van Kampen, the owner from 1772 to 1773.

Bagpipe player with iron-red contoured blue eyes under manganese eyebrows, his face and hands are set with blue lines that emphasize the folds in his skin, wearing a dark manganese hat with a modeled flower decoration on his brown hair, his body covered with a a blue jacket with iron-red cuffs and yellow buttons, green breeches and manganese shoes, seated on a blue-striped barrel with iron-red hoops on a blue base with polychrome marbled rim.

DIMENSIONS
Height: 26.5 cm. (10.4 in.)

PROVENANCE
French Private Collection, Paris, 2023 (Provenance+)

SIMILAR EXAMPLE
A similar model with different decoration from the Frits Philips Collection, is depicted in Aronson 2008, p. 118.