IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138505 accession number: C.825-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: creamware figure of a mounted officer decorated with metallic oxides under lead glaze. The royal cipher 'GR' is on his holster. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138505 PEOPLE ------------------- Asser, R.V. cavalry officer SUBJECTS ------------------- war horse horse TECHNIQUES ---------- dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and mottled and streaked with green, yellow and brown oxide colours under lead-glaze moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1775 CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26 dimension: Length units: cm value: 16.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Essential Horse CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ceramics from the Rous Lench Collection including British Pottery and Porcelain, Dutch Delft . . . English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 ---