Description
A rare Stanley Thorogood Pottery figure of on knight on horseback, cast earthenware with hand-finishing, with two attendants, one lying on the ground, the other holding the horse's reins, gazing upwards, on shaped rectangular base, painted in colours incised signature to base, minor damages 32cm. high
Provenance
The Albert E Wade Collection
Literature
Art Nouveau, Art Deco and the Thirties, Brighton Museum catalogue, page 96 catalogue number 233 for a comparable figure.
The Studio Yearbook 1926 page 127 for a comparable figure
Stanley Thorogood (1873-1953) designed a series of mounted medieval figures inspired by the book illustrations of Ducourtioux et Huillard who produced wood engravings for Boutet de Monvel's Jeanne d'Arc, published in 1896.
