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THE MILLER COLLECTION
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A RARE ‘SCOTSMEN’ PUNCHBOWL
CIRCA 1745-1750 Acquired from Schmidt’s, Palm Beach, c. 1955.
The exterior with a Scottish Highlander on each side between leafy The two Scotsmen are likely Rifeman Shaw and Piper Macdonnel,
peach branches and blossoming pink roses, the interior with a foral both Jacobite martyrs, after prints engraved by George Bickham and
cluster beneath a gilt spearhead border at the rim published in 1743. The engraving of the piper was also used as the
frontispiece for A Short History of the Highland Regiment of 1743
$15,000-25,000
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A FAMILLE ROSE ‘HUNTSMAN’ PLATE
CIRCA 1740
The richly enameled huntsman with a stag lying before
him and a hound at either side
9 in. (23 cm.) diameter
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired from P. Suval, Inc., Virginia, in 2004.
After Johan Elias Ridinger (1698-1767), the famed
German engraver of horses, hounds and hunting scenes.
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