William Smith O'Brien, MP (1803-1864)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1848
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
181 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341494
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, William Smith O'Brien, MP (1803-1864), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of William Smith O'Brien, sitting, bare-headed, in handcuffs.
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
S O'BRIEN (indented caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter