Lot Essay
The poem 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 After a vulgar anti-Jacobite English print (in fact the bowl is inscribed with the publication details off the print: R. Dighton delin. and London, published by Jn. Smith No. 35 Cheapside Robt. Sayer & Jn. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs Sep 1789) satirizing the unsuccessful Scottish foray to London after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. The design is only known in punchbowls. See Hervouet and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a Décor Occidental, p.207, and Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, no. 70.