Lot 37
A LARGE WEMYSS WARE BASIN
'WHITE BROOM' PATTERN, CIRCA 1900
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 16 August 2017 at 12:00 BST
£475
Description
of circular form, impressed and painted maker's marks WEMYSS (minor damages)
Dimensions
Diameter: 39cm
Footnote
Literature: Davis, Peter; De Rin, Victoria; Macmillan, David & Rankine, Robert, 'Wemyss Ware: A Decorative Scottish Pottery', Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1986, p.111, fig. 222
Note: 'White Broom' pattern was purchased as wash sets and desk sets by William Forbes J.P. for Callendar House, Falkirk. Forbes was the grandson on the maternal side of the Seventh Earl of Wemyss and white broom was the family's cap badge.