France England Turkey
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1854
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
280 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341595
Summary
Ceramic figure, 'France England Turkey', 1854, Staffordshire. Modelled as Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873), Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Sultan Abdulmejid I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1823-1861). Queen Victoria is crowned, standing in the centre with the Emperor Napoleon, bare-headed, on right and the Sultan in a turban on 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.
Marks and inscriptions
FRANCE ENGLAND TURKEY (black painted caps)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter