King Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia, later King of Italy (1820-1878)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1855
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
429 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341600
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, King Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia, later King of Italy (1820-1878), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of the King of Sardinia, standing, bare-headed. Right hand on a draped pedestal.
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
KING OF / SARDINIA (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter