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A RARE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE "BACCHUS" PUNCHBOWL
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1730-1740
Decorated with a crowned figure and two musicians standing before a herm, before which four children play; the reverse painted with a Bacchanalian group led by two tigers pulling a yellow chariot, the figures carrying staffs, suspending clusters of grapes and leading a goat by the horns, the interior decorated with carp and water weeds--15½in. (39.5cm.) diam.
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1730-1740
Decorated with a crowned figure and two musicians standing before a herm, before which four children play; the reverse painted with a Bacchanalian group led by two tigers pulling a yellow chariot, the figures carrying staffs, suspending clusters of grapes and leading a goat by the horns, the interior decorated with carp and water weeds--15½in. (39.5cm.) diam.
Provenance
Matthew & Elisabeth Sharpe, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Exhibited
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Experts' Choice, One Thousand Years of the Art Trade, p. 105