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A RARE LARGE TIGER AND FOXHUNTING BOWL
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1775
A Chinese tiger hunt in two panels on the exterior, one side
showing the capture and the other with the tiger being carried back
home, the interior with a continuous view of a Western foxhunting
scene, the riders accompanied by a large pack of hounds and
encircling the fox in the center
16 in. (40.6 cm.) diameter
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 9 May 1994, lot 17.
LITERATURE:
William R. Sargent, Chinese Porcelain in the Conde Collection,
Madrid, 2014, p. 274-275, no. 112.

Just a handful of beautifully enameled bowls depict this dual
vision of hunting, East and West. The English foxhunt depicted
on the interior is inspired by James Seymour paintings, which
were conveyed to China through prints and became the subject
of numerous hunting bowls in the second half of the 18th century,
while the two Chinese tiger hunt scenes are found on a small
number of bowls of this same period.
A very similar example in the Winterthur Museum is illustrated by
Hervouet (op.cit., p. 76), who also shows one other that had been
in the collection of Peter Perring Thomas of the British East India
Co.

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