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A Cavalier, perhaps Charles I
Pottery: Pickleherring Pottery (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware dish painted in blue with a mounted cavalier, perhaps Charles I, surrounded by a mock-gadrooned border
Dark reddish buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue; the reverse, covered with greenish lead-glaze. Circular with an upturned edge, sloping rim, and shallow well, standing on a footring. The well is decorated with a man wearing a hat, and holding a baton on a galloping horse, perhaps Charles I, in a landscape with trees and houses. On the rim there are mock gadroons.
History note: Unknown before testator, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 32.5 cm
Height: 7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Charles I
Circa
1640
CE
-
1660
CE
In his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, Bernard Rackham identified the rider as 'probably Charles II as Prince of Wales' but his features have a stronger resemblance to those of Charles I.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( cobalt-blue)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
( greenish)
Back
composed of
slip
( pale)
lead-glaze
reddish-buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1303-1928
Primary reference Number: 83051
Old object number: R.2408
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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