Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
417 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341423
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, standing. Left hand on pedestal. Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister 1868, and 1874-80. Author of Coningsby, Lothair, etc.
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
BEACONSFIELD (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter