CIRCA 1750

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A RARE EXPORT 'COIN' PUNCHBOWL FOR THE SWEDISH MARKET
Circa 1750
Decorated around the sides in sepia and gilt with ten Swedish coins depicting gods, godesses, inscriptions and dates, below a band of iron-red and gilt shell scroll below the rim, the centre of the interior with a floral spray drawn in pencil style, below a band of gilt spearheads at the rim, restored
10 3/8 in. (26.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 November 1986, lot 401 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-129).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Compare the very similar bowl (also restored) from the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, no. 233, where the authors at that time believed the Mottahedeh example to be possibly unique. Interestingly, the Mottahedeh bowl is enamelled with the reverse of a coin in the interior, which is not on the bowl in the present lot. The coins depicted on the exterior of the bowl represent Swedish dalers of the emergency copper minting and date between 1715 and 1719, issued during the Nordic War of that period. See Suzanne Stocking Mottahedeh, 'The American Connoisseur - numismatic sources of Chinese exports porcelain decorations', The Connoisseur, October 1999, vol.172, pp.111-118.

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