A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME PUNCH BOWL

CIRCA 1730

Details

A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME PUNCH BOWL
Circa 1730
The interior painted in blue with a flowering plant within a border of alternate panels of whorl and hatch, the exterior in blue, iron-red and green with band of floral and foliate lamberquins enclosing similar plants
12in. (31cm.) diam.

Provenance

With Ginsburg & Levy, New York, 1963

Lot Essay

See John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA, 1994, no. 42 for a bowl of similar profile painted in the same colours and with an identical interior band of alternating trellis and whorl panels.