Gertrude Antiques has dated this Victorian Staffordshire Prince Albert Figure to the Victorian era.
Condition: Very good. Little wear to paint of hair on the right, and small indent on the base as shown.
He fathered 9 children with Queen Victoria, and largely managed the royal household. A person with progressive ideas, he showed great zeal in supporting public causes such as educational reform. He was the force behind the Great Exhibition of 1851. The surplus from this astoundingly successful venture was used to buy land in South Kensington for the establishment of Imperial College, the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal Albert Hall.
A combination of the right clays, inventive potters such as Josiah Wedgwood and available labour made the Staffordshire district the centre of the china industry. Many small forgotten factories as well as the giants such as Spode, Wedgwood, Adams, clustered in the towns of Burslem, Cobridge, Fenton, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall, now incorporated in the present day town of Stoke-on-Trent.
England’s Industrial Revolution coincided almost exactly with the start of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, creating wealth from industry. The new middle classes were eager to emulate their betters by decorating their homes with objects similar to costly Meissen and Chelsea figures, and Staffordshire potters obliged by turning out painted and glazed pottery greyhounds, houses, sheep, dogs, cattle and more exotic animals such as zebras and elephants. Figures of gods and goddesses, examples drawn from literature, famous political and military men and above all, representations of royalty, all found homes in England and America.
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Gertrude Antiques has dated this Victorian Staffordshire Prince Albert Figure to the Victorian era.
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Victorian Staffordshire Figure of Prince Albert
