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A RARE AND MASSIVE AMERICAN MARKET SPORTING
PUNCHBOWL
CIRCA 1795-1800

Four fnely painted sepia sporting cartouches on the
exterior and a fox vignette inside
22 Ω inches (57.1 cm.) diameter

$10,000-15,000

This magnifcent bowl matches a punch bowl from by Godden i (p. 238). An important bowl not from this
the collection of H. F. du Pont, now at Winterthur Morris set but sharing the same print source(s) is the
(illustrated in The Magazine Antiques, July 2001, p. Seawall bowl illustrated by J. Mudge (Chinese Export
102, when in the entrance of his Southampton house). Porcelain for North America, p. 218), inscribed FOR
Both relate closely to a smaller bowl featuring two JOHN SEAWELL OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY
equestrian hunting vignettes, published by J. G. Lee VIRGINIA. The Seawell bowl includes the very rare
in Philadelphians and The China Trade (no. 26), as once fat-racing vignette and the lovely hound and fox
part of a set in graduated sizes “...presented to Samuel vignette, both in sepia, though interestingly, its hound
Morris by the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club.” Samuel and fox scene is reversed. J. A. Lloyd Hyde (Oriental
Morris (1734-1812), a prominent Philadelphian, was a Lowestoft, p. 87) writes of the matching du Pont bowl,
founding member and president of the Hunt. “Views of horse-racing are most infrequent [and this bowl]
shows one of the fnest known.”
Other bowls that were likely part of the Samuel Morris
set include an example from the collection of Governor This magnifcent punch bowl demonstrates the very
Sprigg of Maryland now in the Maryland Historical high quality of the special orders that were made for
Society (cited by Lee), a small example from the leading Americans at this relatively late stage of the
Mottahedeh Collection sold Sotheby’s New York, 30 China Trade.
January 1985, lot 176, and a large example illustrated

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