Mounted Officer: C.825-1928

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

Mounted Officer

Maker(s)

Maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

Entities

Figure

Description

Creamware figure of a mounted officer decorated with metallic oxides under lead glaze. The royal cipher 'GR' is on his holster.

Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and mottled and streaked under lead-glaze with green, yellow and brown oxide colours. The horse and rider are supported on a high rectangular base with sloping fluted sides, vertically striped in the three colours, and having a yellow and a green circle on the top below the horse. It is hollow underneath and unglazed except for a narrow band round the lower edge. The officer is seated in an upright commanding posture. He originally held a sword in his extended right arm, and holds the reigns in his left hand. He wears a plumed tricorne hat touched with brown and yellow, a short curled wig with a queue at the back, a mottled brown jacket with green pleats and buttons, a cream waistcoat with a sash and Garter Star, breeches with green buttons, and mottled brown boots. A green scabbard for his sword is suspended on his left side. The saddle cloth has an incised border pattern coloured green. A holster incised 'GR/X' hangs on the right side of the saddle.

Notes

History note: R.V. Asser; sold 7-8 May 1909, The Tower, Belvedere Park, Kent. By order of the executors of the late R.V. Asser Esq., one of four equestrian figures in the same lot; bought by an unidentified dealer who sold two to Sergeant & Fisher, London, from whom bought for £60 on 24 May 1909 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.