Lot Essay
The Anti-Gallican Society was formed in London in 1745 "To promote British Manufactures...and discourage the introduction of French modes" (see Howard, op. cit., p. 487). Hervouet and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnie des Indes à Decor Occidental, illustrate an Anti-Gallican punch bowl from the collection of the Museum of the United Grand Lodge of England, London (p. 331).