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23. Covered Punch Bowl with Platter. Chinese
(Swedish market), ca. I745. Hard paste. Punch bowl:
h. with cover I2I/2 in. (31.8 cm). Platter: diam. 2I3/4 in.
(55.2 cm). Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, I940
(40.I33.Ia, b; .2)

This monumentalpunch bowl, with its original cover and
platter, must have been one the most ambitious to
porcelains
of
as
grace an American colonial household. We can only speculate
to how the bowl, the decoration which indicates that it was
of
to
its
madefor the Swedish market,found way aprominent
It was listed
Charleston the eighteenth century.
family during
among the ef/ects of Mary Brandford Bull, upon her death in
I772, as 'I large China Bowl Dish & Cover. "The Bulls, one
wealthiestfamilies,
of Charleston's lived in the grand style.
Through thefour daughters, the bowl descended in thefamily
and ended in Philadelphia by I790. The detailedpainted
up
scene on the platter is based on a 1691 engraving of the
Swedish Chateau Lacko, on Lake Vanern. Two other
of
Swedish chdteaus sources are repre-
drawnfrom earlierprint
sented on the bowl; the coverfeatures two Swedish churches
Platter, detail Chateau Lacko in a landscape with huntsmen,fishermen, and sailors.
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of
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