France England Turkey: Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873), Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid, Sultan of Turkey (1823-1861)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1854
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
280 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 341595
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, France England Turkey: Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873), Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid, Sultan of Turkey (1823-1861), Staffordshire Pottery. Three-full-length Staffordshire figures of Queen Victoria, the Emperor Napoleon III and the Sultan of Tirkey. Queen Victoria Crowned, stands in the centre with the Emperor Napoleon, bare-headed, on her right and the Sulton in in a turban on her left.
Provenance
part of collection built up by Thomas Balston (d.1967). He wrote about the collection in Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age, 1958.
Marks and inscriptions
FRANCE ENGLAND TURKEY (black painted caps)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter