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See J.G. Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain, fig. 45 for an example from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the engraving that inspired this rare and charming decoration.
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CIRCA 1755
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A 'CONCERT' PUNCHBOWL
Circa 1755
Finely painted front and back after an English engraving showing seven musicians performing in powdered wigs, each side with a smaller panel depicting a Chinese chamber orchestra with their instruments, all on a gilt vine ground decorated with gourd-shaped sepia landscape vignettes, the interior with a gilt floral cluster beneath a scroll and shell border
16in. (40.6cm.) diam.
Circa 1755
Finely painted front and back after an English engraving showing seven musicians performing in powdered wigs, each side with a smaller panel depicting a Chinese chamber orchestra with their instruments, all on a gilt vine ground decorated with gourd-shaped sepia landscape vignettes, the interior with a gilt floral cluster beneath a scroll and shell border
16in. (40.6cm.) diam.