General Charles George Gordon (1833-1885)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1885
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
393 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341702
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, General Charles George Gordon (1833-1885), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of General Gordon, standing, in fez, uniform, and trousers. Left hand on the muzzle of a gun.
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
GORDON (transfer caps. in crimson)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter