CIRCA 1785-90

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A RARE 'SAUNEY'S MISTAKE' BOWL
CIRCA 1785-90
Showing the grimacing Scotsman seated on his privy, a plaque beside him reading O Sawnoy why leavst thou thy Nelly to moan, the back inscribed with the poem SAUNEYS MISTAKE, the sides with flower baskets, inside a deep border above central flower cluster
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) diam.

拍品專文

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, op. cit., p.207, and Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, no. 70.