Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873) and the Empress Eugénie (1826-1920)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1850
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
305 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341755
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873) and the Empress Eugénie (1826-1920), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figures of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie. Napoleon standing in plumed cocked hat, uniform and trousers (left). The Empress Eugenie standing, bare-headed, in low bodice, flounced skirt and overskirt; her left hand on his right forearm (right).
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