A LARGE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PUNCH-BOWL (PUNSCHTERRINE)

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, THE MOUNTS LATER

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A LARGE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PUNCH-BOWL (PUNSCHTERRINE)
Circa 1750, blue crossed swords mark, the mounts later
Painted after William Hogarth's 'A Midnight Conversation' with revelers around a table smoking in a garden, the reverse with a vignette of two gentlemen and a cleric in conversation, below an ozier-moulded border, the rim and footrim with Louis XV style ormolu mounts of beaded ovolo and rocaille scrolls
11.5/8in. (29.5cm.) diam., the bowl

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See Hans Syz, et al., The Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 177 for an unmounted bowl of similar size painted with a variation of the dinner table scene after Hogarth and with a different but related vignette on the reverse. Other examples are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. See also Karl Berling, Das Meissener Porzellan und seine Geschichte, Leipzig, 1900, p. 127, fig. 187 for a punschterrine and its cover in the Geheinrat Schller, Berlin painted with similar scenes after Hogarth within gilt-dentil rims suspending garlands.