Frankenthal
(Germany 1755–1799)
- Title
- Piper
- Year
- circa 1760
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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15.2 x 7.5 x 8.4 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.163
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The figure is one of a group of rustic musicians modelled by Johann Wilhelm Lanz c1760. Players of bagpipes, horn and glockenspiel are also known. Lanz had formerly worked at Strasbourg. He is recorded at Frankenthal 1756–60.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 95 (colour illus.). cat.no. 119
