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Robert Burns: A rare pearlware jug, circa 1820-30
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Robert Burns: A rare pearlware jug, circa 1820-30 Probably Scottish, printed in outline and hand-coloured with the seated and smiling figures of 'TAM O SHANTER & SOUTER JOHNNY', both men with a drink in hand, appropriately flanked by wheat or barley sheaves, a border of blue thistles with ochre leaves below the rim, 11cm high Footnotes: Robert Burns wrote the poem 'Tam o' Shanter' in 1790. Both comic and epic, it tells the tale of a farmer Tam (Tom) and his friend the shoemaker or 'souter' Johnnie. The two men regularly enjoy a drink or two at a tavern in Ayr. One evening on his ride home from the pub after a night of overindulgence, Tam encounters a coven of witches, warlocks and the devil himself. He and his mare, Meg, escape over a river in the nick of time. A pair of large pearlware figures of Tam O Shanter and Souter Johnnie were sold by Bonhams on 11 May 2005, lot 83. See also the drawing of both men by Walter Geikie in the National Galleries of Scotland, accession no. D4547. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Robert Burns: A rare pearlware jug, circa 1820-30 Probably Scottish, printed in outline and hand-coloured with the seated and smiling figures of 'TAM O SHANTER & SOUTER JOHNNY', both men with a drink in hand, appropriately flanked by wheat or barley sheaves, a border of blue thistles with ochre leaves below the rim, 11cm high Footnotes: Robert Burns wrote the poem 'Tam o' Shanter' in 1790. Both comic and epic, it tells the tale of a farmer Tam (Tom) and his friend the shoemaker or 'souter' Johnnie. The two men regularly enjoy a drink or two at a tavern in Ayr. One evening on his ride home from the pub after a night of overindulgence, Tam encounters a coven of witches, warlocks and the devil himself. He and his mare, Meg, escape over a river in the nick of time. A pair of large pearlware figures of Tam O Shanter and Souter Johnnie were sold by Bonhams on 11 May 2005, lot 83. See also the drawing of both men by Walter Geikie in the National Galleries of Scotland, accession no. D4547. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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