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Details
- Date
- circa 1760
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- 15.2 x 7.5 x 8.4 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2012.163
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Frankenthal
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 95 (colour illus.). cat.no. 119
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