IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 312963 accession number: C.913-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 4 July 2023 updated: Tuesday 22 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed and painted in pale blue, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh-pink a little red, tan, pale brown, brown, grey, and black enamels. The group is supported on a a high rectangular plinth with mouldings round the top and lower edges, coloured to resemble black marble, and having on the front a reserved oval panel painted in black with the title 'George and Dragon'. The plinth is glazed and hollow underneath with a large central ventilation hole. The pale brown horse stands on an oval green and brown rocky mound with a tree trunk in the middle which supports its belly. It has a black bridle and collar, and a grey saddle cloth held on by a black strap. St George, wearing a black Roman style plumed helmet, a tan tunic, blue cloak, and black sandals rides without stirrups, and holds a grey spear in both hands as he plunges it into the mouth of the green and yellow dragon writhing on the ground below the horse. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels title: figure and animal group NOTES ----- type: history note value: A.G.Smith, Wardour Street, London, from whom bought for £7.10s.0d. on 15 February 1905 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 collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/312963 PEOPLE ------------------- St George SUBJECTS ------------------- dragon horse dragon horse TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed and painted in pale blue, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh-pink a little red, tan, pale brown, brown, grey, and black enamels; the plinth is open and glazed underneath and has a large central ventilation hole press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory maker: Enoch Wood DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 19.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 ---