Capodimonte Porcelain Group Depicting A Bagpipe Player And His Puppets

Hard‑paste porcelain figurine, modelled and decorated with polychrome enamels, bearing on the underside the Capodimonte mark in underglaze blue.

Naples, first half of the 20th century, after a model by Claude Innocentius du Paquier of the Imperial Vienna Porcelain Manufactory, 18th century.

The figurine depicts a street musician playing the bagpipes; at his feet are a dog and a small board with two puppets exchanging tender affections. The composition demonstrates a precise understanding of the models produced by the Vienna manufactory in the 18th century.

Indeed, the Capodimonte manufactory of the 19th and early 20th centuries is characterised by a clear admiration for Viennese prototypes, whose themes it adopts while imparting a chromatic vivacity that is distinctly Neapolitan.

Condition: very good; no defects or restorations to report.