Lot 136
A SCOTTISH BURR-WOOD SNUFF MULL BY GEORGE SINCLAIR, BONNINGTON
19TH CENTURY
Scottish Applied Arts & Wemyss
Auction: 12 August 2015 at 12:00 BST
£450
Description
the hinged cover painted with a pheasant and a hound, the interior cover stamped 'GEO. SINCLAIR / BONNINGTON'
Dimensions
10.5cm long
Footnote
Provenance: The Alex Wilson Collection of Mauchline Ware
Note: George Sinclair is the only maker of Mauchline ware recorded to have worked in Bonnington, with the majority of his contemporaries working in either the Highlands or the west of Scotland.