A pair of Jacobite silk pin cushions ‡
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
£500
Description
the white silk ground of incurved rectangular form with blue silk tassles, printed to both sides with central Jacobite rose surrounded by 'Mart: For: K & Cou :1746' the cartouche printed with names and titles of the Peers and supporters of the Jacobite cause executed and martyred for the cause (2)
Dimensions
10cm wide
Footnote
Notes:
for a similar example fo this pin cushion from the Threipland of Fingask family collection see 'The Jacobites and their Adversaries' Christies Scotland 12th June 1996, lots 113 and 114