The Rt Hon. William Ewart Gladstone MP (1809-1898)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1860 - 1895
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
304 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341413
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, The Rt Hon. William Ewart Gladstone MP (1809-1898), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of William Ewart Gladstone, standing, bare-headed. On square base. Right hand on two books on a square pedestal. Prime Minister 1868-74, 1880-5, 1886, 1892-4.
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