Liberte: Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1864
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
343 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341757
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Liberte: Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Giuseppe Garibaldi, standing, bare-headed, in shirt and trousers. Left hand on sword hilt, right holding a pennon inscribed LIBERTE.
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
LIBERTE (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter