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Details
A Bristol delft blue and white punch bowl
painted to the interior with two leopards with fruit, before a tree stump above the inscription 'Peace and Good Neighbourhood', within a continuous band of vines, the exterior painted with a stag beneath a tree in a continuous landscape with a grotto, a church and an orchard, circa 1750 (replacement section to foot, overpainted rim chip, smaller chips) -- 36.5cm. diam.
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painted to the interior with two leopards with fruit, before a tree stump above the inscription 'Peace and Good Neighbourhood', within a continuous band of vines, the exterior painted with a stag beneath a tree in a continuous landscape with a grotto, a church and an orchard, circa 1750 (replacement section to foot, overpainted rim chip, smaller chips) -- 36.5cm. diam.
See illustration
Provenance
The Property of a Gentleman, Christie's King Street, 9th June 1980, lot 53.
Literature
Hugo Morley-Fletcher and Roger McIlroy, Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery (1984), p. 246, nos. 5 and 5A.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.