Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. H501, fig. 58.
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A Staffordshire figure of Robert Burns
wearing long coat, breeches and gaiters, modelled standing reading from a book which he holds in his left hand, his right elbow resting on a book above a plinth moulded with farming implements, on gilt-titled shaped oval base, mid 19th century (some overpainting to black enamels of hair, two small glaze chips and very minor flaking to enamels) -- 28cm. high
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wearing long coat, breeches and gaiters, modelled standing reading from a book which he holds in his left hand, his right elbow resting on a book above a plinth moulded with farming implements, on gilt-titled shaped oval base, mid 19th century (some overpainting to black enamels of hair, two small glaze chips and very minor flaking to enamels) -- 28cm. high
See illustration
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