Parian Ware Figurine of Queen Victoria (2) (original) (raw)

Queen Victoria

Parian Ware

1850

This portrait of the queen in an expensive form of ceramics was obviously intended for the upper middle classes who could afford it. Contrast it to the crude Staffordshire pottery figures that served as the three-dimensional ceramic version of a printed broadside.

Bibliography

Priestley, J. B. Victoria's Heyday. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

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