Admiral Robert Blake (1599-1657)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
266 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341526
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Admiral Robert Blake (1599-1657) Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Admiral Blake, standing, bare-headed, in short coat, breeches and stockings.
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
Adm' Blake (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter