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Carpet featuring a portrait of Robert Burns

Key details

Object number
2013.169.2
Date
1960 to 1970
On display
No
Maker
Stoddard of Kilmarnock (Manufacturer)

Description

Carpet featuring a portrait of Robert Burns in the centre, within oval roundelle, and four Scenes of Burns Country: the Burns Cottage, the Burns Monument, the Auld Kirk of Alloway and the Tam o'Shanter Inn. Made by Stoddard of Kilmarnock in the 1960s.

The design was made by George Scott, the Head Designer at Gray’s Carpet Works of Ayr and the original pattern is kept in the Stoddard archive at the University of Glasgow


Object information

Acquisition

24 April 2013

Material

Measurements

  • Length: 169(cm)
  • Width: 92(cm)

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