William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1875 - 1899
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
20 in (H)9 in (W)5.5 in (D)
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1395910
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire pottery figure of Shakespeare, late C19. Dressed in white and holding a red book leans on his right elbow on a stack of red and blue books on a plinth, marked on stand 'Shakespeare'.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter