Staffordshire figures are a type of popular pottery figurine made in England from the 18th century onward. Many Staffordshire figures made from 1740 to...
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oven Ceramic and Allied Trades Union Trent and Mersey Canal Staffordshire figure Staffordshire dog figurine Edwin Bennett, apprenticed here together with...
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Staffordshire dog figurines are matching pairs of pottery spaniel dogs, standing guard, which were habitually placed on mantelpieces in 19th-century homes...
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Staffordshire figure of Spring, from a set of the Four Seasons, Neale & Co, c. 1780, 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)...
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or metal. The earthenware Staffordshire figures of the 18th and 19th centuries were enormously popular, with Staffordshire dog figurines the most popular;...
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slavery for white audiences by portraying Tom as a young, strong Jesus-like figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master (Simon Legree)...
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Thomas Whieldon (category Artists from Staffordshire)
1719 in Penkhull, Staffordshire – March 1795) was an English potter who played a leading role in the development of Staffordshire pottery. The attribution...
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French term for wicker baskets slung on either side of a pack animal. Staffordshire figure, c. 1750 fromTriptych: Mr Peter Ducane, Mary, nee Norris, his wife...
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before the incident. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which owns the Staffordshire figure group illustrated, suggests that the continuing popularity of the...
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retold many times. It has also been also commemorated in a series of Staffordshire figures of the "Death of Munrow". Mackenzie erroneously identified the...
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vases on the mantel-piece, were shaking violently." American, 1849 Staffordshire figure, c. 1860, depicting the punishment accorded to Mazeppa, after the...
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white people. Stowe intended Tom to be a "noble hero" and a Christ-like figure who, like Jesus at his crucifixion, forgives the people responsible for...
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maint: location missing publisher (link) Exeter Annual wrestling match, Staffordshire Advertiser, 8 August 1812, p4. Atisu, Etsey (September 9, 2019). "The...
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play with paper dolls, a child's Victorian paper-peepshow and a Staffordshire figure There have been some Milly-Molly-Mandy adaptations and merchandising...
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Stoke-on-Trent (redirect from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire)
(often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of 36 square miles (93 km2). In 2022, the city...
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Tamworth (/ˈtæmwərθ/, /ˈtæməθ/) is a market town and borough in Staffordshire, England, 14 miles (23 km) north-east of Birmingham. The town borders North...
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Whitefield's legacy: George Whitefield was probably the most famous religious figure of the eighteenth century. Newspapers called him the 'marvel of the age'...
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Figurine (redirect from Staction figure)
800–1600 Staffordshire figures – England, 1720 to present Santons – Provence, France, 18th century to present Animal figurines Model figure Modern figurines...
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Staffordshire figure of a Medici lion, enamels on Lead-glazed earthenware, circa 1820....
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Pew group (category Staffordshire pottery)
The pew group is a rare type of pottery Staffordshire figure, apparently made only in the 1740s. Typically it has two or three "rigidly posed" figures...
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Enoch Wood (category Artists from Staffordshire)
major families in Staffordshire pottery. Starting as a modeller, he established a successful business in Burslem in the Staffordshire Potteries, from 1790-1818...
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Nathaniel Currier Adah Isaacs Menken clad in a bodystocking as Mazeppa Staffordshire figure group and spill vase, circa 1860, where the artist has depicted a...
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Hanley (redirect from Hanley, Staffordshire)
Stoke-upon-Trent, amalgamated to form the City of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. The town is the main business, commercial and cultural hub...
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Toby Jug, with a brown salt glaze, was developed and popularised by Staffordshire potters in the 1760s. It is thought to be a development of similar Delft...
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Shrewsbury commissioned him to build St Giles Catholic Church, Cheadle, Staffordshire, which was completed in 1846, and Pugin was also responsible for designing...
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Britannica article "Fenton". Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fenton, Staffordshire. Use interactive maps to find historic artefacts and photographs of...
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civil parish in rural Staffordshire, England, on the A458 road between Stourbridge and Bridgnorth. Enville is in the South Staffordshire district. The largest...
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The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) was a mounted auxiliary unit of the British Army raised in 1794 to defend Great Britain from foreign...
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Penkridge (redirect from Penkridge, Staffordshire)
(/ˈpɛŋkrɪdʒ/ PENG-krij) is a village and civil parish in South Staffordshire District in Staffordshire, England. It is to the south of Stafford, north of Wolverhampton...
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John Caudwell (category People from Shelton, Staffordshire)
a baby to Stoke-on-Trent and raised in Wellesley Street in Shelton, Staffordshire, and with his brother Brian attended Shelton Church of England School...
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