figure
- Museum number
- 1938,0314.83.CR
- Description
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Figure, creamware, moulded, lead-glazed, of a dragoon mounted on a grey horse with a musket in his left hand and dark brown reins in his right. He wears a manganese-purple tunic, breeches, a hat with yellow braid with a blue badge and carries a sword and a sack and pouch across his shoulder. The horse's bridle, green saddlecloth and trappings are moulded relief and there is an applied bed-roll behind him. The figure stands on a manganese-purple shaped rectangular hollow base with moulded tassels at each corner.
- Production date
- 1750 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.50 centimetres
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Length: 12.50 centimetres (base)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Once attribted to Astbury.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Straps off right foot missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1938,0314.83.CR