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Punchbowl, interior

54. Punch Bowl. Chinese (American market), I812.Hard paste. bowlduringMayorDeWitt Clintonstenure,hadclosetiesto Clinton,
H. io in. (25.4 cm). Inscribed on foot rim:Made bySyngchong particularlythroughtheirvariousimportantleadershipositionswith
in Canton,FungmanhePinxt. Lent by the City of New York theFreemasonos fNew YorkA. lthoughtheexactoccasionforthepre-
sentationis notknown,it undoubtedlcyelebratetdhesuccesosf Clintons
Thisextraordinarilycapacioupsunchbowl was madeforthecityofNew commission,appointedto explorean inland water routefromthe
YorkandpresentedbyBrigadierGeneralJacobMortononJuly4, 1812.The HudsonRiver toLakeErie, in itspleaforfundingfromtheSenate.
inscriptionis emblazonedin gold within a broadborderaroundthe rim. Clintonsgoal to establishsucha canalwas derailedshortlythereafter
TheGreatSealofthe UnitedStatesappearson two sides.On anothersideis bywar with England,until1825,when theErie Canalfinallyopened.
a renderingu, niqueon Chineseporcelaino,fthearmsofNew YorkCity
(oppositeb, ottom).Theinteriorfeatureas carefulrenderingofNew York In an unusualdeparture,the bowl is one of thefew signed export
HarborfromBrooklyn,copiedfroman engravingby SamuelSeymour porcelainsI. n boldletteringaroundthefootrim, creditisgiven to the
publishedby WilliamBirchofPennsylvaniain 1802. Morton,whogave the CantonesemerchantSyngchongandto thebowlspainter,Fungmanhe.

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