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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Earthenware, press-moulded with a relief design on the interior, and decorated with cream and dark brown slip under lead-glaze. A horseman holding a pistol in his left hand and a short sword in his right, riding towards the viewer's right.
Buff earthenware, press-moulded over a shallow hump mould to produce a design in relief, coated on the front with creamy-white slip, slip-trailed in dark brown, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated and unglazed. Circular with a lightly scalloped edge, and a border of trailed dark brown spots surrounding a rider mounted on a horse walking to the viewer's right. The man wears a hat with a feather at the back, a ruff, and a long coat, and thigh boots, and holds a pistol in his left hand and a short sword in his right. In the background behind him is a flower head made up of nine small circles, of which five are filled in with brown, and another smaller and uncoloured is below the horse. A motif comprising five spots, of which three are coloured brown is between the horse's fore legs. In front of the horse is the letter W and possibly an A or a B. Two small suspension holes were bored on either side of the man's hat before glazing.
History note: John Eliot Hodgkin (1829-1912), Putney; Wilfred Harding, London, from whom bought for £65 on 17 September 1913, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 17th to early 18th century
Circa
1650
-
1730
Plates of this design have been dated between the mid seventeenth century and the early eighteenth century
Front
composed of
slip
( creamy-white and dark brown)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Decoration
buff Earthenware
Inscription present: W faintly in relief and another letter, possibly A or B
Accession number: C.191-1928
Primary reference Number: 72847
Old object number: 4772
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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