Lot Essay
David Howard (ibid) writes that this "very richly decorated" bowl is "of the finest quality of its day and would have been ordered privately."
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CIRCA 1735
Details
A FAMILLE ROSE PUNCH BOWL
CIRCA 1735
The exterior lavishly enamelled with two pheasants to one side, two peacocks on the other, sitting atop weathered blue rocks amongst flowering peony and chrysanthemum, the sides with songbirds flying and perched among flowers, all below a lappet border centering flowerheads on variantly patterned grounds, the interior with a large brightly colored flower-filled basket, at the rim a pink and blue band featuring peony and cartouches of lotus
15 in. (38 cm.) diameter
CIRCA 1735
The exterior lavishly enamelled with two pheasants to one side, two peacocks on the other, sitting atop weathered blue rocks amongst flowering peony and chrysanthemum, the sides with songbirds flying and perched among flowers, all below a lappet border centering flowerheads on variantly patterned grounds, the interior with a large brightly colored flower-filled basket, at the rim a pink and blue band featuring peony and cartouches of lotus
15 in. (38 cm.) diameter
Provenance
W. Martin Hurst Collection
with Hancock, London
with Hancock, London
Literature
D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 198
Exhibited
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1975