White ground painted in red, yellow, blue and grey with two kilted Scotsmen, one with a musket and the other playing the bagpipes, in the centre of the plate, four scrollwork cartouches around the rim enclosing birds on flowering branches
Catalogue (lightly edited): 'The figures in the centre depict a piper and a private from the 42nd Regiment of Foot, a predecessor to the famous Black Watch. The source print of the piper is discussed by David Sanctuary Howard, 'Chinese Porcelain of the Jacobites - I', Country Life, January 25, 1973. Howard notes that the piper was taken from an engraving by George Brickham and published in A Short History of the Highland Regiment, London, 1743; and the private was also after a drawing by Brickham of the same date. Members of the regiment deserted the Stuart cause, and on July 18, 1743, Privates Samuel, Farquar Shaw, Malcolm McPherson were executed at the Tower for the mutiny, and a Piper Macdonnel was sent to Georgia [in America] as a convict. These men were seen as Jacobite martyrs, and memorialized on plates and punch bowls bearing these figures.'
Chinese export plate (c1745) at Rob Michiels Auctions, Bruges (est. €8,000-12,000) #Jacobite #c18 #c18th #18thc