Lot Essay
Cf. P.D.Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures (New York, 1971), p. C 292, pl. 77.
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CIRCA 1856
Details
A Staffordshire figure-group of Albert and Napoleon III
CIRCA 1856
Modelled with Napoleon III standing to the left in full military uniform clasping hands with Albert who stands similarly dressed in blue uniform and cocked hat, above them two iron-red and blue flags fly, between them a grey brick wall with a pile of cannon shells at the base, titled in raised purple script, on a rectangular base (slight glaze flaking)
The first 13½ in. (34.2 cm.) high, the second 11¾ in. (29.7 cm.) high
CIRCA 1856
Modelled with Napoleon III standing to the left in full military uniform clasping hands with Albert who stands similarly dressed in blue uniform and cocked hat, above them two iron-red and blue flags fly, between them a grey brick wall with a pile of cannon shells at the base, titled in raised purple script, on a rectangular base (slight glaze flaking)
The first 13½ in. (34.2 cm.) high, the second 11¾ in. (29.7 cm.) high
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