Lot 154

SCOTTISH POTTERY EAST COAST FIGURE OF A HIGHLANDER
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RATHBONE'S, PORTOBELLO




Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: Lots 1 - 412 | 20 August 2024 at 10am
£4,284
Description
modelled standing in a tartan plaid and kilt, wearing a tam o'Shanter with feather, holding a horn snuff mull in his right hand, his left hand on his hip, with a dirk and a flintlock pistol and wearing a fox head sporran, with red checked socks, standing on a naturalistic ground, unmarked
Dimensions
32cm high
Provenance
This figure was on loan to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, from 2006 and has a hand written museum inventory number on the base (IL.2009.41.3).
Footnote
A similar example was offered at Phillips, Edinburgh, European Ceramics and Glass, May 17th 1996, lot 271.



