Roger Giles
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
130 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341707
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Roger Giles, Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Roger Giles, squatting, to lay eggs, wearing a round hat, green coat, with bare backside.
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
ROGER / GILES (indented caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter