Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
374 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341688
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Thomas Jefferson, standing, bare-headed, facing half-right, in a long coat edged with fur, short waistcoat, breeches and stockings. Tricorn in his left hand, the Decleration in his right.
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