A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE FIGURE OF WILLIAM III OR THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND

Details

A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE FIGURE OF WILLIAM III OR THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND
CIRCA 1785

In blue cloak, green and blue armor astride a rearing brown charger supported by moss-encrusted rockwork on a waisted rectangular base edged with green laurel (one hoof missing, his left foot restuck, chip to reins)--14¾in. (37.5cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., Sale Sotheby's London, December 6, 1966, Lot 49 (to Tilley & Co. on behalf of Kenneth Chorley)

Lot Essay

Cf. Sir Harold Mackintosh, Bt., Early English Figure Pottery, London, 1938, frontispiece; see also Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection of English Pottery..., London, 1990, no. 263, for a discussion and similar example of this type