£40
A pair of Staffordshire figures of Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnnie, circa 1840, figures modelled after Robert Burns' Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnnie, seated figures hold mugs of beer, painted in polychrome enamel, set on square white gilt-lined bases, 13.5cm high (2). Note: modelled after the celebrated life-sized figures of Tam and Johnnie sculpted in c.1828 by a self-taught Scottish stonemason, James Thom. Thoms statues were first exhibited in Ayr, 1828 before their critically acclaimed transfer to London in 1829. Later copies were produced by Thom for exhibition in America.
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