Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-1861)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1840
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
171 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341367
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-1861), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, sitting, bare-headed. Paper in right hand. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-61) married Queen Victoria in 1840 and was created Prince Consort in 1857.
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
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Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter