Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
270 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341657
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Robert Burns (1759-1796). Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Robert Burns, standing, bare-headed, in long coat, breeches and gaiters, a plaid over his left shoulder. Reads a book held in his left hand.
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
R BURNS (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter