Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873) and the Empress Eugénie, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1826-1920)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1854
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
247 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341622
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873) and the Empress Eugénie, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1826-1920), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figures of Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie. Napoleon (right), standing, bare-headed, in uniform; Empress Eugenie (left), sitting, a veil on her head, in a broad-backed chair.
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
EUGENIE AND NAPOLEON (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter