Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
295 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341660
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Robert Burns (1759-1796), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Robert Burns, standing, bare-headed, in long coat and trousers.
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 (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter