Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1848
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
187 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341655
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Robert Burns (1759-1796), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Robert Burns, sitting, bare-headed, a snuff-box in his right hand. Belongs to the 'Alpha' factory group of circa.1848.
Provenance
part of collection built up by Thomas Balston (d.1967). He wrote about the collection in Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age, 1958.
Marks and inscriptions
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Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter