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A LARGE POWDER-BLUE AND GILT PUNCH BOWL communally in China would probably have been tea, and this was
Qianlong period, circa 1750 never served in anything but smaller vessels like a teapot (for leaf tea)
The exterior with a brilliant thick powder-blue glaze that pools neatly or smallish bowl (for whisked tea).
above the biscuit foot rim and painted in rich gilding with four equally
spaced large peony flowerheads with smaller flowering buds beneath Conversely, the huge Western demand for hot spiced wine served
a wide trellis cell-pattern band at the rim, the interior painted in iron- in large bowls to the members of convivial social clubs, in private
red and gilt with a full-faced chrysanthemum flowerhead to the center homes and at other centers of entertainment is well recorded in many
within a single gilt circle, the interior sides otherwise plain save for a European prints of the period. The prints of William Hogarth’s genre
dense but delicately painted wide band of scrolling chrysanthemum, scenes, and James Gilray’s superbly satirical political cartoons, are the
lotus and hibiscus or day lily below the rim. best known in England, the probable destination for this handsome
13 3/4in (35cm) diam bowl.
$1,200 - 1,800
乾隆時期 約1750年 為歐洲市場製藍地描金潘趣酒碗

Published:
Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp, 2015, p. 12, no. 6
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque & Roll》，安特衛普，2015
年，頁12，圖版編號6
Although there is nothing in its surface decoration to distinguish this
bowl as being a form specifically made for the European market, it
is the unusually large size which essentially identifies it as not being
an object for the Chinese market, since it has no function in polite
Chinese society. Chinese entertaining does not involve the provision of
large vessels full of alcoholic hot drinks; the only hot drink to be served

(interior view)

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