IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72847 accession number: C.191-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 June 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. 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/72847 PEOPLE ------------------- Hodgkin, John Eliot (1829-1912) rider TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1730 culture: mid 17th to early 18th century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Early English Earthenware CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery English Pottery, Its Development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 1, Slipware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_191_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_191_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_191_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_191_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_191_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_191_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_191_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_191_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels