François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
254 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341712
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Voltaire, standing, bare-headed, in long coat, waistcoat, breeches and stockings.
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