A SHIPPING BOWL

CIRCA 1775-80

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A SHIPPING BOWL
CIRCA 1775-80
Painted with an engagement probably from the Seven Years' War, a large British ship in the center and to the sides smaller ships flying the white Bourbon flag, the interior rim with floral swags
10½ in. (25.7 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

A bowl with this shipping decoration from the Mottahedeh collection is illustrated by Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 224, and was sold Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1985, lot 135; another in the Garbisch collection was sold Sotheby's, Pokety Farms, Maryland, 22-23 May, 1980.

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