Robert Burns (1759-1796) and Mary Campbell (1763-1786)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
290 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341664
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Robert Burns (1759-1796) and Mary Campbell (1763-1786), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figures of Robert Burns and Mary Campbell, both sitting in front of tree (spill-holder). Burns, in bonnet, coat and trousers, with his left arm round Mary's shoulders (left). Below them eight lines of a poem; 'How sweetly blessed the gay green birk'.
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
How sweetly blessed the gay green birk (8 lines of this poem in gilt upper and lower case).
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter