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Porcelain plate of two Scottish soldiers; China, decorated in Canton, Qing dynasty, about 1745
White plate, with polychrome decoration with depiction of two Scottish soldiers in centre. Both the soldiers wear kilts, one is piping, the other has rifle. Lip of plate is decorated in sepia with two panels containing landscape scenes and two scenes of polychrome birds on branches.
Almost certainly they appear to be based on George Bickham's engravings of the mutineers which were produced in 174…
Subject
- ph_survey; Food vessels & Tableware; Scotland
Type of item
- Plate
- Plate
Date
- ca. 1745
- 1745~
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Places
- Jingdezhen
- Guangzhou
Identifier
- O39740
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-01-12T14:28:02.502Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-04-26T14:18:48.412Z