William III as a Roman emperor
ca. 1770–80
Medium
Lead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Height: 14 in. (35.6 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
British, Burslem, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Francis P. Garvan, 1940
Accession Number
40.171.1
Tags
About the Artist
Ralph Wood the Younger|John Bacon the Elder · 1748–1795
Ralph Wood the Younger was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1748, the son of the celebrated potter Ralph Wood the Elder and a member of a family that stood at the center of the Staffordshire ceramics industry during its most creative and internationally influential period. Growing up in the workshops of his father, he absorbed from childhood the technical traditions of English earthenware produc...