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Description: | Watch stand in the form of clock tower, warm red lead-glazed earthenware ornamented with reliefs in white and dark brown stained clays. Slab-built square clock face with internal watch pocket, on semi-circular stem cut from thrown cylinder. Square pedestal with four pillars at each corner supporting corners of clock face, two twisted white pillars at the front, two plain dark brown pillars at the back (one missing). Pedestal front decorated with applied relief swags and pendants in white and dark brown, applied dark brown rim round upper edge. Modelled figure of a soldier in white and dark brown seated in slab-built chair in centre of pedestal within stem beneath clock face. Clock face ornamented with white and brown reliefs comprising two flowering stems emerging from rosette beneath central watch hole framed in white, a third flower above watch hole. Two modelled soldiers in white with dark brown boots, greatcoats and hats, positioned on small plinths either side of clock face, standing with arms folded. Slab-built cover in the form of gabled roof, with applied relief dark brown rims and single flower head in white with brown petals.
Technique: applied relief
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: slab-built
Material: modelled
Material: lead-glazed
watch stand by George Fishley, Fremington Pottery, 1840=1865 (circa), (1923.194). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2416 | Go to resource |
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