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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
CIRCA 1755
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A RARE 'CONCERT' PUNCHBOWL
circa 1755
Decorated on each side after a British engraving with seven musicians performing in powdered wigs, the sides with smaller panels of seven Chinese musicians playing Oriental instruments, all on a gilt vine ground decorated with gourd-shaped sepia landscape and bird cartouches, the interior with a central cluster of gilt vine beneath a scroll and shell border
15 7/8in. (40.3cm.) diam.
circa 1755
Decorated on each side after a British engraving with seven musicians performing in powdered wigs, the sides with smaller panels of seven Chinese musicians playing Oriental instruments, all on a gilt vine ground decorated with gourd-shaped sepia landscape and bird cartouches, the interior with a central cluster of gilt vine beneath a scroll and shell border
15 7/8in. (40.3cm.) diam.