A VERY RARE 'SCOTSMEN' BOWL

CIRCA 1745

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A VERY RARE 'SCOTSMEN' BOWL
Circa 1745
Each side finely enamelled with a Scotsman in his colorful regimental regalia, one piping and the other with his musket at his side, in between them boughs of pink roses and pale pink and green peaches, the interior with a gilt border of blossoming boughs above a portrait in the center of the 'Old Pretender'contained in a bright blue frame entwined with fruiting vine
11¼in. (28.6cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Both figures copied after engravings by George Bickham, the piper from his 1743 frontispiece to A Short History of the Highland Regiment. D.S. Howard writes in A Tale of Three Cities, p. 112, "The engravings had become popular...for they were identified with martyrs of the day - on 18th July 1743, four riflemen of the Regiment were shot in the Tower for mutiny". A combination of Jacobite feeling and fascination with the elaborate costume of the Highlanders seems to have fueled the fashion for these subjects

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