Sailors of the Crimean priming a Cannon 341591

Sailors of the Crimean priming a Cannon

Staffordshire Pottery

Balston Collection of Staffordshire figures © National Trust / Catriona Hughes

Date

1830 - 1870

Materials

Earthenware

Measurements

242 mm (H)

Place of origin

Staffordshire

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Collection

Attingham Park, Shropshire

NT 341591

Summary

Ceramic, Staffordshire, Sailors of the Cremean priming a Cannon, Staffordshire Pottery. Two full-length Staffordshire figures, non-portraittrait of Crimean sailors, one with hisright hand raised to his hat, left leg on a platform and right foot raised on a cannon. The o ther sailor kneeling on his left knee, left arm resting on the cannon his right hand ramming a shell into its muzzle (left).

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.

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Makers and roles

Staffordshire Pottery, potter

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