A MANDARIN PALETTE HUNTING PUNCHBOWL

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A MANDARIN PALETTE HUNTING PUNCHBOWL
CIRCA 1785

Painted with two large panels of the hunting party, showing the pursuit on one side and the treeing of the fox on the other, bamboo and flowering vine-edged panels of birds and blossoms in between, all on a Y-patterned ground, the interior with a large pheasant hunting vignette and an elaborate border around the rim (hairline, some rim restoration)--16in. (40.7cm.) diam.