Lot 111
111
A RARE SATIRICAL PUNCHBOWL, 'SAUNEY'S MISTAKE'
THE COLLECTION OF J. JEFFERSON AND ANNE WEILER MILLER
A RARE SATIRICAL PUNCHBOWL, 'SAUNEY'S MISTAKE'

CIRCA 1770

Details
A RARE SATIRICAL PUNCHBOWL, 'SAUNEY'S MISTAKE'
CIRCA 1770
Enameled on one side with anti-Jacobite scene of a Scotsman seated comically on a latrine, the other with the poem 'Sauney's Mistake'
11 ¼ in. diameter
Provenance
Acquired from The Art Exchange, New York, circa 1957.

Lot Essay

The poem, taken from a vulgar anti-Jacobite English print, its publication details incribed along the bottom, reads: When first to the South sly Sauney came forth/He was shewn to a place quite unknown in the North/That he is mistaken you soon will explore/Yet he scratches and s__s as no man did before.

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