Lot 100
100
A RARE 'SCOTSMEN' PUNCHBOWL
THE COLLECTION OF J. JEFFERSON AND ANNE WEILER MILLER
A RARE 'SCOTSMEN' PUNCHBOWL

CIRCA 1745-1750

Details
A RARE 'SCOTSMEN' PUNCHBOWL

CIRCA 1745-1750
The exterior with a Scottish Highlander on each side between leafy peach branches and blossoming pink roses, the interior with a floral cluster beneath a gilt spearhead border at the rim
Provenance
Acquired from Schmidt's, Palm Beach, c. 1955.

Lot Essay

The two Scotsmen are likely Rifleman Shaw and Piper Macdonnel, both Jacobite martyrs, after prints engraved by George Bickham and published in 1743. The engraving of the piper was also used as the frontispiece for A Short History of the Highland Regiment of 1743

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