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Dish: an Unidentified Cavalier
Pottery: uncertain (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue, pale turquoise-green, yellow, and manganese-purple with a rider mounted on a horse cantering to the left towards a fence; border of a yellow band and blue dashes
Pale buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed overall, and painted on the front in blue, pale turquoise-green, yellow, and manganese-purple. Circular with steeply sloping rim and deep curved sides, standing on a wide, shallow footring. The inside is decorated with a man mounted on a horse cantering to the left towards a fence, with greensward in the foreground, and a blue shrub on the viewer's right. The cavalier wears a plumed hat, a sash which streams out behind him, and top boots with spurs. He holds the reigns in his right hand and a baton in his left. The outer edge is encircled by a broad yellow band and short blue dashes. There are three spur marks in the middle of the well.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity college, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 34.7 cm
Height: 8.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early
William III (1750-1702)
Production date:
circa
AD 1700
This dish was catalogued by Rackham (1935), as English, but late 20th century opinion veered towards a Friesan attribution. The image appears to be based on a print of an equestrian portrait of William III by T. van Merlen of which there is an example in the British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings (1848.9.11.353)
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, copper-green, yellow, and manganese-purple)
Moulding
: Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed overall, and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese-purple high temperature colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1651-1928
Primary reference Number: 72387
Old object number: 1543
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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