Lot 36
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A RARE 'SCOTSMAN' PLATE
A RARE 'SCOTSMAN' PLATE

CIRCA 1745

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A RARE 'SCOTSMAN' PLATE
Circa 1745
Showing the two Scotsmen in the regalia of their regiment, one piping and the other with his musket at his side, the rim decorated with four gilt-edged panels of grisaille landscape and bird vignettes
96in. (23cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Commemorating the Jacobite martyrs, Shaw, Farquar and McPherson, who were executed at the Tower of London July 18, 1743 for their part in the mutiny of their regiment. See Hervouet and Bruneau, op. cit., pp. 224-5