'Spinario'
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1765
Materials
Ceramic (creamware)
Measurements
133 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440386
Summary
[Salvaged] A Staffordshire creamware figure of a boy removing a thorn from his foot, called the 'Spinario', taken from a Roman bronze in the Capitoline Museum; naked, he is seated with his left foot raised and held in his hands, with grey hair, the flat green base with a pug in recumbent attitude.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1968 by Mrs Hannah Gubbay
Marks and inscriptions
109/409; C in circle (see inventory card)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter