IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72876 accession number: C.192-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 June 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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: 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 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/72876 PEOPLE ------------------- Smith, Frank rider SUBJECTS ------------------- riding horse pistol sword horse pistol sword TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1720 culture: mid 17th to early 18th century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware English Pottery, Its Development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery 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/aa4/C_192_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_192_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_192_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_192_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_192_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_192_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_192_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_192_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_192_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_192_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_192_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_192_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels