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Pole
Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware painted in enamels
White salt-glazed stoneware, press-moulded, and painted in blue, bluish-green, yellow, pink, brownish-black, and black enamels. The Pole stands, wearing a close-fitting black cap, a long blue gown with sleeves hanging down from the elbow at the back, and showing the lower sleeve of a pink tunic, a brownish-black sash, and a yellow-hilted scimitar. The base is bluish-green.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Copied from a Meissen porcelain figure modelled by Jhanmn Joachim Kaendler.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, bluish-green, yellow, pink, brownish-black, and black)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
off -white Stoneware
Press-moulding : White-stoneware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, salt-glazed, and painted in blue, bluish-green, yellow, pink, brownish-black and black enamels
Accession number: C.814-1928
Primary reference Number: 76145
Old object number: 3660
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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