Object Detail
Description
vase, Scottish couple, group-showing the Scottish poet Robert Burns with his beloved 'Highland' Mary Campbell (1763-86)
Maker and role
manufacturer: unknown
Robert Burns (Scottish, b.1759, d.1796)
Robert Burns (Scottish, b.1759, d.1796)
Production place
Staffordshire potteries district, Staffordshire, England
Production date
circa 1860
Media description
earthenware, glazed
Measurements
293 x 145 x 95 mm
Inscriptions
a Robert Burns verse on the scroll reads:
how sweetly bloomd the grey green bird
how rich the hawthornes blossom
as underneathe their fragrant shade
i clasped her to my bosom
the golden hours on angels wings
flew o'er me and my dearie
for dear to me as light and life
was my sweet highland mary.
from Robert Burns [Song] Highland Mary, 1792
how sweetly bloomd the grey green bird
how rich the hawthornes blossom
as underneathe their fragrant shade
i clasped her to my bosom
the golden hours on angels wings
flew o'er me and my dearie
for dear to me as light and life
was my sweet highland mary.
from Robert Burns [Song] Highland Mary, 1792
Credit line
Foundation Collection, 1989
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through a significant donation from the OPENING DOORS fund, the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection, and Digitisation Champion Christine Bell
Accession number
A0542
TJC reference number
694
