CIRCA 1810-20

Details

A LEEDS PEARLWARE MODEL OF A HORSE
CIRCA 1810-20
Its body sponged in blue, on a rectangular base with canted corners
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34.3 cm.) long

Provenance

Acquired by Mrs Audrey Field (née James; later Mrs Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie) by 1938; photographed in the library at The Holme, by Cecil Beaton, circa 1937.

Literature

'A House in Regent's Park. The Hon. Mrs. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie's home, Holme House', Country Life, 20 April 1940, p. 419, figs. 7-8 (The Library).

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Lot Essay

Dealers in equestrian feed, medicine and tack used large pottery horses, like the ones seen here, in their display windows to draw in customers. Traditionally all called ‘Leeds Horses’, now only pearlware models are thought to have been made by the Leeds factory itself. Examples can be found in the Leeds City Museum, the Yorkshire Museum and the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum.

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