The Rt Hon. William Ewart Gladstone MP (1809-1898)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1870 - 1895
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
405 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341424
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. Right hand on speech on 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
GLADSTONE (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter