Sale 9195
London, South Kensington
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20 September 2001
Price realised
GBP 329
Estimate
A figure of William Ewart Gladstone wearing a black frockcoat, waistcoat and trousers, modelled standing, his right hand resting on a pedestal, titled in gilt, on shaped oval base, circa 1870 (minor seam cracks and crazing to the glaze) -- 43cm. high See illustration
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Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. B194, fig. 47.
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