Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
359 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341689
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Benjamin Franklin, standing, bare-headed. A tricorn hat is his left hand, a document in his right. Angular base.
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
FRANKLIN (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter