Young man standing beside a cow and a recumbent dog: C.850-1928

Titles

Young man standing beside a cow and a recumbent dog

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory (Probably)
Production: Unidentified Yorkshire factory (Possibly)

Entities

• Group

Categories

• Lead-glazed earthenware
• Pratt Ware
• Underglaze painted figures

Description

White earthenware painted underglaze in blue, pale green, ochre and black; Pratt Ware

White earthenware painted in blue, pale green, ochre, and black under lead-glaze. The figures are supported on a rectangular base with rounded corners. The cow stands with its head on the viewer's right, a young man stands beside it leaning against a low tree stump, and resting his left elbow on the top of a spade. He rests his head on his left hand and has his right hand on the top of the spade. To the viewer's left of him there is a small spaniel-like dog lying down in profile. The cow is white except for her teats, forehead, and a saddle-like area on her back which are ochre mottled with groups of black spots, and her hoofs, tail and eyes which are black. The man wears a black hat and shoes, a blue jacket, a white shirt with black spots, ochre breeches and white stockings. His spade is black. The dog has black ears, paws and tail. The edge of the base is decorated with alternating rectangular areas of ochre, blue and black mottling, and its top is pale green.

Notes

History note: Mr R. L. Butland, Station Road, Taunton, from whom bought for £2.15s. on 2 November 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century, Early
George III
Circa 1800 CE - 1810 CE

Note

This group was probably initially part of a pair of which the other had a woman standing in front of the cow. It was attributed to Staffordshire by Glaisher and Rackham (1935), but might also have been made in Yorkshire, see Documentation, Lewis (1984)