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This baluster form of snuff mull was popular in Scotland in the first half of the 18th century. However, examples with explicit Jacobite associations are rare.
Ampherlaw House is a manor house in Lanarkshire, Scotland, near the village of Carnwath and one of the former possessions of the Somerville family. It was built some time in the early 16th century and the members of the Somerville family who held the Ampherlaw estate were cadets of the Lords Somerville of Carnwath and Linton.
The Inscription "I R VIII" refers to James Francis Edward Stuart's (the Old Pretender) claim to the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart with the title of James the Eighth.
The motto "Pro Rege et Patria", (For King and Country) whilst not an exclusively Jacobite motto does refer to the ambition of the Jacobite cause.