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    "localId": "136534",
    "label": "Figure of the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de musette)",
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    "id": "136534",
    "contentType": "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",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.10.2",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 22.9 x 13.4 x 8 cm (9 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, Vincennes"
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    "tec": "unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)",
    "tombstone": "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 &amp; 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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n159"
        },
        {
            "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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n159"
        },
        {
            "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"
        }
    ],
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    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:58:18.647000",
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    ],
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