John Wesley (1703-1791)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
181 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341440
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, John Wesley (1703-1791), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of John Wesley, standing, bare-headed, in bands, cassock and gown, both hands holding an open book.
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
WESLEY (indented caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter