Isaac A. Van Amburgh (1811-1865)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1848
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
325 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341717
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Isaac A. Van Amburgh (1811-1865), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Isaac Van Amburgh, standing, bare-headed and bearded, in a short-skirted dress with a shawl over his shoulders. His right hand on the lower jaw of a lion. The lion on its hind legs.
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