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Lot Essay
This massive unusual and impressive punch bowl illustrates very successfully the transition between the 'Mandarin-pattern' style of the late 18th century with its figural panels, and the typical Cantonese style adopted from the first decade of the 19th century and throughout the century.
Lieutenant-General John Campbell (1762-1834) inherited at the age of 19 from a distant cousin who died without issue. He became 4th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland in the peerage of Scotland and quickly got to work on remodelling the 16th-century Balloch Castle before demolishing it and replacing it with the palatial Taymouth Castle. He was elected a fellow of The Royal Society in 1784 and also raised three battalions of the Breadalbane Fencibles from 1793, totalling in excess of 2000 men, largely from his own estates. In 1814 he became a Lieutenant-General and in 1831, just three years before his death, he was honoured by being elevated to the peerage of the United Kingdom as Earl of Ormelie and Marquess of Breadalbane.
Lieutenant-General John Campbell (1762-1834) inherited at the age of 19 from a distant cousin who died without issue. He became 4th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland in the peerage of Scotland and quickly got to work on remodelling the 16th-century Balloch Castle before demolishing it and replacing it with the palatial Taymouth Castle. He was elected a fellow of The Royal Society in 1784 and also raised three battalions of the Breadalbane Fencibles from 1793, totalling in excess of 2000 men, largely from his own estates. In 1814 he became a Lieutenant-General and in 1831, just three years before his death, he was honoured by being elevated to the peerage of the United Kingdom as Earl of Ormelie and Marquess of Breadalbane.