Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt MP (1788-1850)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
257 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341409
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt MP (1788-1850), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Sir Robert Peel, standing, bare-headed. Right hand holding speech near his hip, left touching a closed book on a pedestal. Prime Minister 1834-5 and 1841-6. In 1864 repealed the Corn Laws.
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