Lot 394
AN EARLY VICTORIAN GAELIC PRESENTATION PLAID BROOCH
UNMARKED
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: 17 August 2022 at 11:00 BST
Description
of circular outline the obverse set with central armorial and crest surrounded by finely cast and chased displayed thistle, the reverse large presentation inscription in Gaelic dated 1842, with steel pin
Dimensions
10cm diameter, 3.5oz
Footnote
Heraldry: The Arms of Stewart of Appin and Ardsheal
Arms: Quarterly 1st and 4th Or a fess chequy azure and argent (for Stewart) 2nd and 3rd Argent Or a lymphad with sails furled sable flagged gules (for Lorn)
Crest: A unicorn’s head argent maned horned and bearded or
Motto: Quhidder will zie [Whither will ye]
Note: Given the presumed date of this brooch, it is known that the armorial bearings as modelled and blazoned above were matriculated at the Lyon Court in Edinburgh in 1772 and 1800. There is a likelihood that this brooch may have been commissioned either by Charles Stewart of Ardsheal (died 1844), the 7th of Ardsheal or his eldest son, Charles Stewart of Ardsheal (born 1805 died 23rd January 1882), the 8th of Ardsheal, who succeeded his father as the chief of the clan, and heir male and representative of Stewarts of Ardsheal, Appin and Lorn in 1844. He was also the 5th Lord Appin in the Jacobite Peerage