[WAR OF 1812] STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE JUG 'COSSACK MODE OF ATTACK', CIRCA 1813
Lotto 210
400600
the body underglaze painted with a scene After the famous etching 'Cossack Mode of Attack. Three Cossacks on horseback charge at two French hussars. 1 January 1813.', published in London in 1813 (hand-coloured etching, the British Museum), After one of the drawings by the Russian caricaturist Ivan Ivanovich Terebenev (1780-1815) from the series related to the Patriotic War of 1812. Terebenev's drawings became very popular in England in 1813 and many prints and engravings were produced in London
pearlware, underglaze painting
H. 17 cm
Condition: spout has been probably professionally restored, beak spout may also have been restored