English Staffordshire Pottery Robert Burns and his Mary Flatback Spill Vase collection_candlesticks Perhaps a likeness of Napoleon

Perhaps a likeness of Napoleon

including stars

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Dated 1946

Hawaiian history

English Staffordshire Pottery Robert Burns and his Mary Flatback Spill Vase collection_candlesticks Perhaps a likeness of NapoleonDETAILS A large antique Staffordshire figure group of Robert Burns (1759 96) and Mary Campbell (1763 86), who is also known as his Highland Mary. The figure of Robert Burns stands with with his arm around Mary, with a tree trunk form spill vase behind them. Note the vivid polychrome glazes. A spill vase was designed to sit on a mantelpiece and hold rolled paper tapers or thin wood splints which were used to transfer fire to light the fireplace or