Earthenware pot lid, unmarked, made 1854 (c).
White, circular.
With transfer printed chromolithgraph image of Raglan half length with empty sleeve, Canrobert on horse.
Within circular, ebonized wood frame.
Inscribed at top, ‘THE ALLIED GENERALS’, and below, ‘F.M. LORD RAGLAN’ and ‘GENRL .CANROBERT.’.
Raglan died in the Crimea on 28 Jun 1855, Canrobert took command of the French Army after the Battle of the Alma, but resigned later in 1855.
Commemorating the two allied commanders, associated with the Battle of the Alma, Crimean War (1854-1856) 1854.