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A MASSIVE ENAMELLED PUNCH BOWL FOR THE AMERICAN For an extensive investigation into the history of the bridge and the
OR ENGLISH MARKET relationship between Jacob Dyckman and Staats Morris see https://
Jiaqing period, circa 1804 www.cohenandcohen.co.uk/objectdetail/772496/17665/massive-
Unusually enameled in sepia on the exterior of the very large bowl chinese-export-punchbowl-for [accessed Nov. 5, 2022]
with two large oval landscape cartouches, one definitively of European
subject matter, the other a simple rural landscape with people The border design of polychrome flowers on a gilt ground around the
wearing the round-brimmed hats popular in the New World, beside a bowl’s exterior is typical of Export wares of the period, but the unusual
wooden bridge on three stone piers, with simple rustic buildings in the Neo-classical interior borders are after designs associated with the
background, all beneath a gold-ground floral band at the rim. British architect Robert Adam.
22 1/2in (56.5cm) diam
If this bowl depicts a scene in eighteenth century New York, then
$20,000 - 25,000 it is an extraordinary discovery. Bowls of this size are often called
christening bowls and the decorative style of this one suggests that it
嘉慶時期 約1804年 為美國或英國市場製大件棕彩描金開光風景圖潘 was made for the American market around 1800 and would have been
趣酒碗 a special commission. A small number of other topographical bowls of
this size and date are known, again mostly for the American market.
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, Angels & Demonslayers, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 96- It is possible therefore that this bowl was made for a family of Dutch
100, no. 63 settlers in New York who wished to acknowledge their origins while
also celebrating their new home, now an independent republic.
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Angels & Demonslayers》，香 References: Howard, 1997, p. 13, where he illustrates a large Masonic
港，2012年，頁96-100，圖版編號63 bowl dated 1812 which has an inner rim border band similar in style
to the outer rim on this bowl; Schiffer, 1980, p. 37, a bowl with a
The bridge is similar in style to the Farmer’s Free (or Dyckman’s) Bridge view of New York, circa 1803, and p. 167, a bowl with an image
built in 1758 over Spuyten Dyvil Creek, in what is now the Bronx area of Pennsylvania Hospital, circa 1805, and also p. 149, a bowl with
of New York City. The bridge was built by John Palmer to avoid the the ‘Surrender of Burgoyne’, circa 1850, now in the White House
King’s Bridge, an expensive toll bridge built by the Philipse family of Collection; and Reier, 1977, The Bridges of New York. The second
Westchester, and until then the only access to the livestock markets scene he shows depicts shops and a fortified town on a cliff top with
in Manhattan for farmers travelling into market from the north in Dutch or South German architecture.
Westchester County.

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