Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a man playing a flute, made by Plymouth Porcelain Factory, Plymouth, ca. 1770

Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a man playing a flute; he is seated between branches of a flowering tree on a high pedestal, picked out in green and crimson, with symmetrical rococo scrollwork in relief on the front; he is dressed in a white cap with red edging and a purple plume, a short light blue-green coat, a large purple apron over red and black striped knee-breeches, and black shoes with red bows

Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber

Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Marsham [?], Tiverton, for £2 2 shillings in November 1869, according to her annotations in the first edition of her catalogue. However, her Journals, vol. I, p. 38-9, gives the vendor's name as Mrs Matcham Marshall, the price as £2, and the date as 16th September 1869. Mrs Marshall is there described as 'a trades person who had accumulated an extraordinary amount of rubbish of which she thinks to make a great profit.' The entry continues: 'She had, however, a nice little coloured Plymouth figure, of the same model as one in white which we bought of Mrs. Fox last year. She was quite unaware what this was. We bought of her for £2, which was quite enough, but had she known what it was she would have asked £10 ... This little transaction was not carried out at once. They are tiresome conceited people ...'

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