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A RARE, FINE AND LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ‘HUNTING’ AND Fox-hunting scenes were popular decoration on punch bowls
‘SHIP’ PUNCH BOWL manufactured at China’s ‘porcelain city’, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi
Qianlong period, circa 1785 Province, for both the English and American markets in the 18th
The exterior boldly and brightly enameled all round with two panels century. The scenes are undoubtedly derived from specific European
within scroll work and dragon heads containing fox-hunting scenes prints in the first instance but have been recopied many times.
depicting ‘The Chase’ separated by dense grounds of iron-red and gilt Although the precise source cannot always be found, the general
Y-pattern, the interior very unusually depicting a full-masted East India arrangement is very consistent, basically comprising scenes of ‘the
Company merchant ship sailing in calm waters of a lightly delineated Meet’, ‘the Chase’ and ‘the Kill’. The source of the English hunting
coastline and framed by an elaborate border of cell diaper pattern, engravings may ultimately be Thomas Burford (1710-1774) after
scroll work and flower heads, a border of scrolling leaves and flowers James Seymour (1702-1752). The ship depicted on the interior of
around the tapering foot. this rare bowl is a very unusual maritime feature, as almost always a
15 1/2in (39cm) diam hunting bowl’s interior scene also depicts a further aspect of the hunt.
$15,000 - 20,000 References: Cohen & Cohen 2007, nos. 32 and 33, pp. 54-57, with a
discussion of images of fox hunting on two bowls, recording that some
乾隆時期 約1785年 粉彩描金《狩獵》《船艦》潘趣大酒碗 views are almost certainly derived from hunting prints by P.C. Canot
after paintings by James Seymour; Litzenburg 2003, p. 211, no. 213,
Published: for a plate and sugar bowl with a very similar ship.
Cohen & Cohen, Take Two!, Antwerp, 2017, pp. 138-139, no. 56, prior
to the discovery of the ‘ghost’ flag (p. 138 mistakenly numbered as p.
380)
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Take Two!》，安特衛普，2017年，
頁138-139，圖版編號56，著於發現《幽靈旗》之前（頁138誤寫為
頁380）

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