1814

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A RARE SPODE PORCELAIN COMMEMORATIVE PUNCH BOWL
1814
Printed and painted in the imari palette with peony, chrysanthemums, leaves and scrolls, below cell-pattern borders, inscribed in gilt 'Bow Fife Golfing Club/Prize Medal for 1814/Won by John Pitcairn Esq./of Kinneard', within brown line rim (cracked and restored)
12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Phillips Chester, 21 January 1994, lot 342.

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Lot Essay

This bowl is one of the earliest golfing prizes recorded. It is rare to find a porcelain bowl as a golfing prize. The Bow of Fife is an area in the Fife on the east coast of Scotland, five miles west of Cupar, where the Pitcairn family are still landowners. It would seem that the Bow of Fife Golfing Club was only in existence for a few years in the early 19th Century.

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