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Beswick Pottery Robert Burns glazed ceramic jug

Key details

Object number
2017.7
Date
1947 to 1960
On display
No
Maker
Beswick Pottery (Potter)

Description

Portrait of Robert Burns in low relief on one side of the jug surrounded with garland of flowers with 'Robert Burns' written underneath.

The other side has a low relief image of a plough with more flowers and this inscription from Burns's Second Epistle to Lapraik: 'The Social, friendly, honest man, What e'er he be, 'Tis he fulfils great nature's plan, And none but he.'


Object information

Material

Measurements

  • Depth: 12.5(cm)
  • Height: 20.3(cm)
  • Width: 19.5(cm)

Place of creation