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Bull-Baiting Group
Potter:
Wood, Ralph, II
(Probably)
Potter:
Wood, Ralph, III
(Possibly)
Earthenware figure of a bull being attacked by a dog decorated with coloured lead-glazes
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated in clear blue-tinted, green, manganese-purple, and greyish-brown lead-glazes. The underside is hollow and unglazed. The figures stand on a high oblong mound of rocks and plants, with a wide tree stump in the middle at the back which supports the bull. The powerful and angry bull is moving towards the viewer's left with its head down and tail raised over its back. The attacking dog is crouched at the front of the base close to the bull's left front leg and head. The mound is coloured in greyish-brown and green glazes. The bull is white with dappling in manganese-purple, and the dog is greyish-brown with paler patches on its back and sides.
History note: John Henry Taylor (1849-1930); sold Sotheby's, 14 November 1930, Catalogue of the Valuable Collections of English Pottery & Porcelain, Glass, Objects of Vertu and Furniture, the Property of the late John Henry Taylor, Esq., Newstead, Birstall, Leicestershire, lot 579
Purchased with the Glaisher fund
Depth: 9.8 cm
Height: 12.7 cm
Length: 17.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1930-11-14) by Sotheby's
18th Century, Late
Circa
1783
-
Circa
1801
Probably made by Ralph Wood II, or after his death in 1795, by his son Ralph Wood III. Some figures of this type were also produced by John Wood, the brother of Ralph II.
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
( clear blue-tinted, green, greyish-brown, manganese-purple)
Surface
cream Earthenware
Accession number: C.37-1930
Primary reference Number: 74705
Glaisher Addition number: GL.Add.12-1930
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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