AN ARMORIAL PUNCH BOWL

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AN ARMORIAL PUNCH BOWL
CIRCA 1725

Enamelled in the front with the arms of Spencer quartering Wright impaling Shaw, the sides painted in inky tones of underglaze blue with three large sprays of peony growing on leafy tendrils and clustered with smaller blossoms, repeated in the center beneath a wide band of floral sprigs reserved on diaper trellis (large repaired break and associated crack)--15 3/8in. (39cm.) diam.