Lot Essay
Compare the very similar bowls in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the Winterthur Museum, illustrated by F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, op.cit., p.76, nos.3.27 and 3.28
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE
A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE 'HUNTING' PUNCH BOWL
QIANLONG
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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE 'HUNTING' PUNCH BOWL
qianlong
The interior enamelled with a lively hunting scene of European horsemen and a great number of dogs, all in a continuous landscape of trees and brick buildings, centering on a coiled fox in iron-red, the exterior with variously shaped cartouches reserved on a trellis-pattern ground and enclosing Chinese figures at leisure in terraced landscapes, rim cracks restored
16in. (40.5cm.) diam.
qianlong
The interior enamelled with a lively hunting scene of European horsemen and a great number of dogs, all in a continuous landscape of trees and brick buildings, centering on a coiled fox in iron-red, the exterior with variously shaped cartouches reserved on a trellis-pattern ground and enclosing Chinese figures at leisure in terraced landscapes, rim cracks restored
16in. (40.5cm.) diam.