A figure of Theobald Wolfe Tone

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A figure of Theobald Wolfe Tone
wearing military uniform, holding two crossed flags across his chest, sparsely coloured and gilt, on oval base, titled in gilt script, 1898 (minor wear to gilding and enamel) -- 36cm. high
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拍品專文

Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures Of The Victorian Era (1970), p. B196, fig. 51. Tone was an Irish Nationalist and member of the 'United Irishmen' involved in organising a French invasion of Ireland in the late 1790's. The plot was betrayed and Tone was condemed as a traitor and died in prison.