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Officer on horseback
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory (Probably)
Cream earthenware painted underglaze in brown, yellow and grey. A cavalry officer on a rearing horse.
Cream, earthenware, press-moulded, and painted in yellow, brown, and grey under lead-glaze. The underside is open and shows the hollow interior which is glazed. The group is supported on a shallow rectangular of ground. The horse is shown rearing in profile to left and the mounted officer turns his head towards the viewer. He wears a brown plumed helmet and has a sword suspended on his left side. The rider, horse and supporting area between its legs are randomly dabbed with yellow, blue and grey.
History note: Gill & Reigate, Oxford Street, London, where purchased for £1.15s.0d. on 1 December 1915 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1795
-
1805
The attribution to Staffordshire is uncertain because underglaze painted figures were also made in Yorkshire and elsewhere
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( metallic oxides for yellow, brown, and grey)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
cream Earthenware
Accession number: C.844-1928
Primary reference Number: 76217
Old object number: 4107
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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