Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1855
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
259 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341558
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figures of Florence Nightingale, standing, a veil on her head. with to her right an officer sitting, bare-headed, left arm in a sling.
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
MISS / NIGHTINGALE (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter