William Smith O'Brien, MP (1803-1864)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
227 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341500
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, William Smith O'Brien, MP (1803-1864), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of William Smith O'Brien, standing, bare-headed, in open-necked shirt, short trousers and bare-feet. Handcuffed. Left forearm on a draped pedestal.
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
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Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter