George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824) and the Maid of Athens, Teresa Macri, later Mrs James Black (1797-1875)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
220 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341652
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824) and the Maid of Athens, Teresa Macri, later Mrs James Black (1797-1875), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figures of Lord Byron and the Maid of Athens. He sits in a buttoned shirt, tunic, sash and loose trousers. The Maid of Athens stands in a turban and pantaloons.
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
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Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter