A rare Staffordshire lead-glazed figure of a bagpiper, mid 18th century


Of large size, modelled standing on a tapered square base, facing forward and playing bagpipes, his coat, waistcoat and breeches splashed in green, ochre and brown underglaze colours, the bagpipes and base in dark brown clay, 19cm high
|Two examples apparently from the same mould are recorded, one in the Captain Price Collection, no. B13, the other in the Henry Weldon Collection, illustrated by Leslie Grigsby (1990), p.415, fig.256. These figures are larger in scale than the single musicians made in Staffordshire during the same period. A lack of other surviving models in this larger size suggests they were individual figures and not part of a set or band.