Figure of the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de musette)
Medium
unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
Dimensions
22.9 × 13.4 × 8 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Norweb Collection
Accession Number
1961.10.2
Tags
gender unknownmale
About this artwork
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.