The Fortune teller
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
297 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341767
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, The Fortune Teller, Full-length Staffordshire figures of a Fortune Teller, seated woman (left) with guitar, a standing woman (right) holding a child in a bower having her palm read.
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
FORTUNE TELLER (raised black caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter