Dr Thomas Raffles (1788-1863)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
238 mm (H)
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341452
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Dr Thomas Raffles (1788-1863) Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Dr. Thomas Raffles, standing, bare-headed, in bands, cassock and gown.
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
DR RAFFLES (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter