Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. C259, fig. 102.
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Details
A figure of Admiral Sir Charles Napier
wearing military uniform, modelled standing holding a hat in his right hand, a cloak in the other, a cannon and shells at his feet, on titled shaped oval gilt-line base, circa 1854 (damages and restoration)
See illustration
wearing military uniform, modelled standing holding a hat in his right hand, a cloak in the other, a cannon and shells at his feet, on titled shaped oval gilt-line base, circa 1854 (damages and restoration)
See illustration
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