Jim Shore® British Santa

This Jim Shore® British Santa is a folk art interpretation of a Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater, who stands guard at the Tower of London. Re-imagined as a jolly Father Christmas by American folk artist Jim Shore, this Jim Shore® British Santa holds a traditional Beefeater halberd and shoulders a Union Jack pouch. Collect this Jim Shore® British Santa along with the German, Irish and Italian Santas from Jim Shore’s Santas Around the World series. Hand painted stone resin.  7.25"h.

Museum Provenance

Jim Shore’s British Santa is inspired by a design or illustration in our Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, located in the Archives Center of our National Museum of American History, Behring Center. A vast assemblage of business ephemera, the collection includes Victorian-era postcards, greeting cards, letterheads, catalogues, advertisements and commerce-related memorabilia. Acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1967, this group of over one million items was the collection of Isadore Warshaw, a New York bookseller, who was concerned that the business community lacked interest in preserving its past.

Every Smithsonian purchase will arrive with a museum provenance card explaining how it is adapted from or inspired by an object or objects in our collection.