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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.
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Document identity
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136534
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Figure of the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de musette)
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136534
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object
title
Figure of the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de musette)
description
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.
date
1748–52
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60754446
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11807
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1888
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Ceramic
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 22.9 x 13.4 x 8 cm (9 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
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France, Vincennes
accession
1961.10.2
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unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
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Figure of the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de musette), 1748–52. Vincennes Porcelain Factory (France, 1740–56), Pierre Blondeau (French), François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit); overall: 22.9 x 13.4 x 8 cm (9 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1961.10.2
collection
Decorative Arts
formerAccessionNumbers
1961.11
citations
citation
Chavagnac, Xavier Roger Marie, and Gaston Antoine Grollier. <em>Histoire des manufactures françaises de porcelaine</em>. Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1906.
page_number
p. 268
citation
Bourgeois, Émile. <em>Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle</em>. Vol. 2. Paris: Goupil, 1909.
page_number
p. 4, pl. 3
citation
Guérinet, Armand, ed. <em>Les Biscuits de la manufacture nationale de Sevres, XVIIIe siecle & XIXe siecle</em>. Paris: A. Guerinet, 1910.
page_number
pl. 43, 35
citation
Bourgeois, Émile, and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard.<em> Le biscuit de Sèvres: recueil des modèles de la manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle</em>. Paris: P. Lafitte, 1913.
page_number
no. 367, pl. 1
citation
<em>Les oeuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres</em>. Vol. 1, <em>La Sculpture de 1738 à 1815</em>. Sèvres: Manufacture nationale, 1932.
page_number
p. 8, no. 382
citation
Hawley, Henry. "Ceramics of the Rococo Age." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 48 (March 1961).
page_number
p. 54-55, fig. 6
citation
Zick, Gisela. "D'Après Boucher. Die Vallée de Montmorency und die europäische Porzellanplastik." <em>Keramos</em> 29 (July 1965).
page_number
p. 5, fig. 1a, b
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 135
citation
Dauterman, Carl Christian. <em>The Wrightsman Collection</em>. Vol 4, <em>Porcelain</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
p. 283, no. 115
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 135
citation
Jedding, Hermann.<em> Europäisches Porzellan</em>. Vol. 3. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971.
page_number
p. 279, no. 869
citation
Préaud, Tamara. <em>Porcelaines de Vincennes: les origines de Sèvres. </em>Paris: Éditions des Musées nationaux, 1977.
page_number
p. 159, 171
citation
Guillemé-Brulon, Dorothée. "Le Premier surtout de table en Biscuit de Sèvres." <em>L'Estampille</em> 173 (September 1984).
page_number
p. 42-45
citation
Boucher, François. <em>Francois Boucher, 1703-1770</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.
page_number
p. 353-54, no. 96
citation
Fay-Hallé, Antoinette. "De l'influence de l'art de Boucher sur l'oeuvre de la Manufacture de Vincennes-Sèvres." <em>Actes du IIIe Colloque national de céramologie: Paris, 9 décembre 1989</em>. Paris: Editions Varia, 1989.
page_number
p. 18, fig. 1; p. 20
citation
Préaud, Tamara, and Antoine d' Albis. <em>La porcelaine de Vincennes</em>. Paris: A. Biro, 1991.
page_number
p. 172-73, no. 175
citation
<em>Versailles et les tables royales en Europe: XVIIème-XIXème siècles</em>. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993.
page_number
p. 285-86
creditline
The Norweb Collection
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136534
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
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