Jenny Marston as Perdita and Frederick Robinson as Florizel in William Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1852
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
296 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341487
Summary
Ceramic, Jenny Marston as Perdita and Frederick Robinson as Florizel in William Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale, Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figures of Jenny Marston and Frederick Robinson as Perdita and Florizel. Perdita, bare-headed, in a long dress; Florizel, a ribbon round his hair, in skirted tunic. Behind them a tree trunk. With mainly gilt and white decoration.
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
WINTER'S TALE (indented caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter