A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'HUNTING' PUNCH BOWL

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1760

Details

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'HUNTING' PUNCH BOWL
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1760
Decorated with shaped panels enclosing hunting scenes with European figures taken from 18th century engravings, the first after 'Brushing into cover' by Pierre Charles Canot (1710-1777) and the second after 'Beating and trailing for a Hare' by Thomas Burford (1710-1774), the interior decorated with a finger citron below a spearhead border
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A comparable example depicting the same scenes can be found in the British Museum collection, London accession number Franks.625a., and in The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, illustrated by John Goldsmith Phillips, China Trade Porcelain, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 141, no.59.

More from Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit

View All