A RARE DATED BOWL

CIRCA 1738

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A RARE DATED BOWL
Circa 1738
With a pensive European woman standing at an octagonal table playing cards, the tableskirt inscribed: I now am in my golden age/with years and sense comes sorrow/my little soul is not engag'd/with what may be tomorrow/for if my house or stand or fall/I and the knave can make up all and signed to the side I.Freeman, the exterior inscribed EDMUND/EASTV'TH/JANUARYye11./1738., a grisaille and gilt Chinese garden scene around the sides
9in. (22.9cm.) diameter

Provenance

With The Art Exchange
The Lucile and Robert H. Gries Charity Fund
Western Reserve Historical Society

Lot Essay

The only related example recorded seems to be a 9 inch bowl sold Sotheby's Monaco, 18 June 1988, lot 1563, its interior with an identical berried wreath inscribed JOSEPH COOPER/JANUARY YE 6/1738, its exterior with a continuous garden scene very like the present bowl's, and its base enamelled in colors with a napping deshabille European woman. Perhaps two East India Company mates, one a settled married gentleman and the other at a more adventurous stage of life, ordered the bowls together.

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