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A RARE SATIRICAL PUNCHBOWL, ‘SAUNEY’S MISTAKE’
CIRCA 1770 TWO POLITICAL SUBJECT PUNCHBOWLS
Enameled on one side with anti-Jacobite scene of a Scotsman seated SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY
comically on a latrine, the other with the poem ‘Sauney’s Mistake’
A ‘Wilkes and Liberty’ bowl with portraits of John Wilkes and Lord
11º in. diameter Mansfeld above the inscription ALWAYS READY IN A GOOD
CAUSE/JUSTICE SANS PITIE, a clump of fowers in the center,
$4,000-6,000 and a bowl with portrait medallions of the Duke of Cumberland and
views of the Battle of Culloden
PROVENANCE:
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diameter (Wilkes and Liberty bowl) (2)
Acquired from The Art Exchange, New York, circa 1957.
$3,000-5,000
The poem, taken from a vulgar anti-Jacobite English print, its
publication details incribed along the bottom, reads: When frst to the PROVENANCE:
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 Acquired from Elinor Gordon, Pennsylvania, in 1957. (Wilkes &
s__s as no man did before. Liberty bowl)
Acquired from The Art Exchange, New York, in 1957. (Duke of
Cumberland bowl)
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