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the centre with two figures of kilted Scotsmen in full regalia, one dressed in an iron-red coat and bonnet, armed with a musket, dirk, socket-bayonet and basket-hilted sword, the other with a red-cuffed grey coat and pale blue bonnet, playing the bagpipes bearing a yellow and iron-red standard, a basket-hilted sword suspended around his waist, their tartans enamelled in yellow, turquoise, blue and puce, their cross-banded socks picked out in yellow and iron-red, all contained within a thin black double-ring border, the rim painted with four vignettes of alternating landscapes and a magpie amongst flowering peonies painted et grisaille with orange and gilt highlights, age wear, enamel wear, gilt loss, firing flaws, chip to foot22,8 cm diameterCompare with related examples:Christie’s, Mandarin & Menagerie: The Sowell Collection and Chinese Export Art from Various Owners, Sale 3704, Lot 113, 26 January 2015, New YorkSotheby’s, The Collection of Khalil Rizk, Lot 186, 25 April 2008, New YorkThe design of the ‘Scotsmen’ or ‘Highlander’ plate is based on Scottish highlanders from the 42nd and 73rd Foot Regiments who amalgamated and became known as the Black Watch. Lamenting martyrs from the Jacobite Rising, the figures are after the 1743 engravings by George Bickham. Riflemen Shaw and Farquar, along with Samuel and Malcolm McPherson were shot at The Tower on 18 July 1743. Piper Macdonnel was sent to Georgia, USA, as a convict for his part in the mutiny. It is believed that the two figures illustrated are Piper Macdonnel and Rifleman Shaw, but it is conceivable that it could well have been any of the other ‘Jacobian martyrs’