William Tell
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
477 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341734
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, William Tell, Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of William Tell, standing, in plumed bonnet, short-skirted dress, and calf-high boots, his bow against his right side.
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
WM TELL (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter