Object number
M.48.15
Title
Spill Holder Figure of Fuller Pilch
Date
1841
Creator
Material
Size
ht: 16.5 cm
Description
Glazed, earthenware, Staffordshire spill holder, depicting Fuller Pilch, batsman. Posed in front of a pollarded tree. Wearing a top hat and green trousers, a blue jacket is draped over a branch Sprouting from the tree and ground are clusters of foliage (bocages). The figure is based on an aquatint by C. Hunt, published 1841. One of a set of three
Display caption
Figure of a Cricketer (said to be Rockingham) in the form of a candlestick,
Height: 6 1/2 “
Purchased from Drury & Drury, 1948, for £8 16s 0d.
(handwritten in pencil) PILCH
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