A CHINESE IMARI PUNCHBOWL

THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A CHINESE IMARI PUNCHBOWL
Third quarter 18th century
Painted with a continuous scene showing a pair of sepia long-tailed birds perched on blue and peach weathered rocks with large peony blooms growing alongside, a butterfly hovering above knarled boughs of magnolia, the interior with a wide border of varous patterned grounds edged in blue and gilt leaves and scrolls trailing flowers, all above four fish swimming amongst falling petals
15¾in. (40cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A nearly identical bowl in the collection of the Rijksmuseum is illustrated by C.J.A. Jorg, op. cit., p. 204 where he notes that large punchbowls "...were seldom bought, as they were too expensive to be sold at a profit. In 1764 a large Chinese Imari bowl like this one cost over ten guilders, the equivalent of a month's wages for a Company sailor or soldier"

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