Live Auction 10672Mrs Thatcher - Property from the Collection of The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, LG, OM, FRS
A MICHAEL SUTTY PORCELAIN GROUP 'THE LATHAM CENTREPIECE, LT. MATHEW LATHAM AND ENSIGN CHARLES WALSH DEFENDING THE KING'S COLOUR, ALBUHERA, 16TH MAY 1811'
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A MICHAEL SUTTY PORCELAIN GROUP 'THE LATHAM CENTREPIECE, LT. MATHEW LATHAM AND ENSIGN CHARLES WALSH DEFENDING THE KING'S COLOUR, ALBUHERA, 16TH MAY 1811'

BY MICHAEL SUTTY, MID-1980S

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A MICHAEL SUTTY PORCELAIN GROUP 'THE LATHAM CENTREPIECE, LT. MATHEW LATHAM AND ENSIGN CHARLES WALSH DEFENDING THE KING'S COLOUR, ALBUHERA, 16TH MAY 1811'
BY MICHAEL SUTTY, MID-1980S
Modelled as three British soldiers bringing down a Prussian cavalryman, on a rectangular plinth
11 3/8 in. (29 cm.) high; 13 ¼ in. (33.7 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Mrs. Thatcher collected porcelain figures of historical figures by Michael Sutty which she favoured for their accuracy. The Latham Centrepiece was her favourite amongst this group, depicting Lt. Matthew Latham and Ensign Charles Walsh defending The King’s Colour during the battle of Albuhera, during the Napoleonic Wars. Mrs. Thatcher describes her particular fondness for this piece in an
interview for the BBC program ‘Favourite Things’, conducted at Downing Street in the mid-1980s.