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Dish: a Bare-headed Cavalier, possibly George Monck, Duke of Albemarle
Pottery: uncertain (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in greyish-blue, pale green, and dark yellow, with a bare-headed cavalier, perhaps George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, riding to the left between stylized trees, with a yellow line and blue dashes round the edge
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in pale shades of blue, pale-green, yellow, and manganese-purple; the reverse covered with pale yellow lead-glaze. Circular with curved sides and everted rim, standing on a footring. Archer, 1997 Shape B. Decorated with a bare-headed man wearing armour, and a sash with two tails streaming out behind him, and holding a marshall's baton in his right hand, mounted on a horse galloping to the left between highly stylized trees. In the foreground there are five blue tufts over five alternating areas of green and yellow with blue or orange horizontal striations over them. The edge is encircled by a yellow line and large, spaced, blue dashes.
History note: Cecil Baring, 3rd Lord Revelstoke; Puttick & Simpson, 20-23 November 1934, Catalogue of an Important Collection of Old English Pottery, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Revelstoke, day , p. 54, lot 655
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Diameter: 13 3/16 cm
Diameter: 33.5 cm
Height: 7.5 cm
Height: 3 in
Method of acquisition: Bought (1934-11-22) by Puttick & Simpson
17th Century, Late
Charles II
Production date:
circa
AD 1680
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( pale shades of blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( pale yellow)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Moulding : Earthenware, moulded, the front tin-glazed and painted in pale shades of blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple; the reverse covered with pale yellow lead-glaze.
Accession number: C.40-1934
Primary reference Number: 74931
Glaisher Additions number: Gl. Add.57-1934
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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