William Tell and his Son
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
254 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341463
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, William Tell and his Son, Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of- William Tell and his son, William is standing, in a high-plumed bonnet, short-skirted dress, a cape over both shoulders and fastened at his neckon the left is his son holding an apple.
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
WILLIAM TELL (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter