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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 hump mould to produce a design in relief, lightly scalloped round the edge with a serrated tool, coated on the front with creamy-white slip, slip-trailed in dark brown, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated and unglazed. Circular with shallow striated scallops round the edge, and a beaded border, decorated on the front with a rider mounted on a horse walking to the viewer's right. The man wears a hat with a feather at the back, thigh boots, and a long coat, 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 seven circles, and another is below the horse. Three similar circles are between the horse's front legs, and one circle between its hind legs. Another brown circle with a relief border, perhaps a flower, is situated to the right of the rider's head. A small suspension hole above the man's hat was bored through the plate before glazing.
History note: Mr Frank Smith, Manchester from whom purchased on 12 December 1925 for £50 (with a posset pot) by Dr J.W. L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 24.2 cm
Height: 4.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 17th to early 18th century
Circa
1650
-
1720
Dishes of this form and design are difficult to date and have been described as mid to late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth century.
Front Decoration
composed of
slip
( creamy white appearing yellowish cream under glaze, and dark brown)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Front
buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in relief on the front, serrated round the edge with a serrated tool, coated with cream slip, decorated with brown slip trailing to fill in areas of the design, and lead-glazed; reverse unglazed
Accession number: C.192-1928
Primary reference Number: 72876
Old object number: 4772
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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