An Officer and Soldier of the Volunteer Rifles
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1860
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
304 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341630
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, An Officer and Soldier of the Volunteer Rifles, Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure an officer and soldier of the Volutneer Rifles, standing right and left of a painted clock face.
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
V. RIFLES (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter