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figure

Summary

Public: Figure of St Peter kneeling in prayer with cockerel and book at his side beneath tree. White earthenware with a pearlware glaze, painted in pink, green, red, turquoise, blue, brown, grey and yellow overglaze enamels. Private: Figure of St Peter on one knee with hands clasped together, dressed in deep pink robe with blue collar and turquoise cuffs and cape. A cockerel in brown, red and yellow, perches on tree stump to left against which lies an open book. Peter kneels on oval grassy mound in green with relief-moulded flowers in turquoise and pair of crossed keys in grey, beneath tall tree with applied relief bocage in green, red and blue. Finely crazed blue pearlware glaze.


Object Name

figure

Date Created

1810-1830

Dimensions

object: 22.2cm x 14.2cm

accession number

1923.905

Place of creation

Staffordshire

Medium

Credit

Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg

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