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48. Famille rose large punch bowl, painted on each side in a shaped reserve with ladies and boys in a garden scene amongst
rockwork with two large chickens, the reverse with boys standing on tables, one reaching up with a ruyi-sceptre to
chime a music stone in the form of a fish, the other dancing on one leg with a lady leaning on a stack of books, between
smaller shaped reserves with birds, fishermen and landscapes, all on an elaborate gilt scroll ground with the gilt band
repeated on the foot, the interior with finger citron and flowers beneath a spearhead border at the rim.
15 ½ inches, 39.4 cm diameter.
Qianlong, 1736-1795.
• From an English private collection.
• A similar bowl now in the Austausch vom Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Dresden, is illustrated by Friedrich Reichel
in Die Porzellansammlung Augusts des Starken, no. 89, p. 93; another figural punch bowl of similar size from the
collection of Alfred Beit (1903-1994) was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Chinese Ceramics Tang to
Qing, 2014, no. 52, pp. 104/5.

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