A/O JUNE 2013-The Fiddle Player is CURRENTLY being made...it is listed in the "Froggie Mountain Breakdown" grouping...
currently being produced by the fine artists, in San Dimas, California, at Hagen-Renaker.
This piece is a high gloss fired glaze finish on a Ceramic clay base that was fired to approximately to 2300 degrees Fahrenheit.
All of the Hagen Renaker miniatures listed on our website are "Fired " finishes; thus making them pieces of "China". Most of the pieces undergo at least two (2), with some having three (3) firings in a Ceramic kiln.
Temperatures will vary from 2500 degrees to 1650 degrees, dependent as to a greenware (raw clay) firing, a glaze firing, or an overglaze (lustre, gold, or platinum) firing.
Hagen-Renaker, fine Potteries since 1946, still family owned AND; HANDCRAFTED IN AMERICA!
Detailing on this tiny miniature is fabulous...