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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE MANDARIN-PATTERN ‘FOX HUNTING’ Hunting bowls were popular in the second half of the eighteenth
PUNCH BOWL century and many different versions are known. This is a fine example
Qianlong period, circa 1770-80 of a high-quality bowl with decoration that places it in the last quarter
The massive bowl brilliantly painted with two large English fox hunting of the eighteenth century. The hunting scenes on the outside are
scenes in the style of James Seymour to the exterior and a bird reminiscent of the hunting scenes by one of the leading artists of
hunting scene to the interior, one large panel with a foreground scene this genre, James Seymour, which were later engraved by the likes
of dogs released from their kennels and surrounding a hunter atop his of Thomas Burford and P Canot. The buildings however are more
horse with whip in hand, behind in the mid-distance is a scene of a elaborate in the capriccio tradition.
hunt in full gallop, with one rider blowing his horn and another cracking
his whip as a fox with hounds baying behind him attempting to However, the scene to the interior of this bowl, a bird hunting
escape by clambering on to a tree and nearby bushes, a backdrop of depiction, is a close copy of a print by Thomas Burford, ‘Pointers and
formidable European buildings in the distance, the other panel similarly Pheasants’ (fig.1). It is not known if this engraving was copied from a
painted but the hunt in the foreground and moving in the opposite Seymour painting but we do know that Burford did engrave other dog
direction but also terminating with a fox attempting an escape by way hunting scenes after Seymour originals and that such depiction cxan
of a tree, a dismounted rider with his hounds in the mid-distance, each be found on another Chinese export punchbowl.
panel is further divided by bamboo-edged bird cartouches and all are
reserved against an iron-red and gilt ‘Mandarin’ pattern Y -shaped References: Lange, 2005, p. 222, a very similar bowl to this but with
ground, the interior of the bowl with a small circular roundel depiction different interior; Brawer, 1992, p. 117, no. 90, an identical bowl; some
a walking hunter with a rifle following his two dogs, who corner a pair examples of other hunting bowls can be found at: Howard, 1997, no.
of pheasants in bushes to one side, the well plain and a band of cell 144; Howard & Ayers, 1978, p. 281-3, no. 280; Howard, 1994, p. 231;
pattern and rocaille scrollwork below the rim panels reserved on an Lloyd Hyde, 1964, Color plate B; Phillips, 1956, p. 141, pl. 59; Cohen
elaborate mandarin palette border. & Cohen, 2007, p. 54-6, nos. 32, 33; Cohen & Cohen, 2008, 52, no.
16in (40.3cm) diam 35; Hervouet, and Bruneau, 1986, nos. 3.25a-b; British Museum,
(Franks.625.a); Krahl & Harrison-Hall, 1994, no. 46; Buerdely, 1962,
$8,000 - 12,000 fig. 44; Litzenberg, 2003, p. 168-9, no. 163; Antunes, 2000, p. 106-7,
bowl with one scene the same as on this bowl.
乾隆時期 約1770-80年 粉彩描金人物故事《獵狐》圖大件潘趣酒碗
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, A Game of Bowls, Gent, 2014, pp. 92-93, no. 65

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《A Game of Bowls》，根特，2014
年，頁92-93，圖版編號65

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