Empress Eugénie, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1826-1920) with the Baby Prince Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Imperial (1856-1879)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1856
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
318 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341553
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Empress Eugénie, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1826-1920) with the Baby Prince Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Imperial (1856-1879), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of the Empress Eugenie, a fillet round her hair, with both arms holding the Prince Imperial, seated on a Throne surmounted by an eagle.
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
EMPRESS OF FRANCE (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter