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Stag
Potter:
Wood, Ralph, II
Potter:
Wood, Ralph, III
Earthenware figure of a stag decorated with coloured lead-glazes
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with green, yellowish-brown, brown, and grey lead-glazes. The stag is supported on an oblong wavy-edged base decorated with plants, and having a flowering tree stump in the middle at the back which serves as a support, and projects above the stag's back. The base is hollow underneath and has a circular ventilation hold under the tree stump. The stag is standing in profile with its left fore and hind legs advanced, and its head turned sharply to its left. It has dark grey antlers, and is coloured unevenly in yellowish-brown which has become green over is back from the running of the tree's leaves during firing.
History note: Stoner & Evans, London
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 22 cm
Length: 15.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1930-11-14) by Stoner & Evans
18th Century, Late
Circa
1783
-
Circa
1800
Made by Ralph Wood II, or after his death in 1795 by his son Ralph Wood III. Figures of stags were in production by1783 soon after Ralph II returned to Burslem from Bristol. Wedgwood MSS 11496-12 of 16 November 1783 lists items bought from Ralph Wood including '12 Stags white spotted 9d a pair' This example does not have spots, but an example at Colonial Williamsburg, is spotted (Inv. no. 63-460).
Decoration composed of lead-glaze ( green, yellowish-brown, brown, grey)
cream Earthenware
Inscription present: B underlined with 9 below
Accession number: C.49-1930
Primary reference Number: 75280
Glaisher Addition number: Gl.Add.17-1930
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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