A Staffordshire creamware model of an officer on horseback

CIRCA 1750

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A Staffordshire creamware model of an officer on horseback
Circa 1750
Modelled in cream slip lined dark-brown tricorn hat, brown jacket, dark-brown boots, with cream waistcoat, cuffs and breeches, with a cream satchel strapped across his chest and a musket at his right side, his right arm raised, astride a light-brown stallion with cream saddlecloth, bridle and reins, with cream tail and three cream fetlocks, on a green, brown, yellow and grey-splashed gadrooned rectangular tasseled base (his right hand and wrist restored replacements, restored at shoulder and sword lacking, left leg repaired at knee, horse's tail broken and re-stuck and crack to right front fetlock, part of sword, scabbard and left stirrup lacking, horse's ears damaged, small piece lacking beneath back right-hand tassel of base)
8¼in. (21cm.) high

Exhibited

Art Treasures Exhibition, 1928, no. 373.
B.A.D.A. Art Treasures Exhibition, Christie's, 1932, no. 792.

Lot Essay

Cf. Sir Harold Mackintosh, Early English Figure Pottery (1938), p. 7, no. 11 and colour illustration p. 5. See also Leslie Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery 1650-1800 (1990), p. 421, no. 260.

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