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Punch Bowl

Dateca. 1775

Maker John Pennington

OriginEngland, Liverpool

MediumSoft-paste porcelain

DimensionsOH: 3 5/16"; OD: 8 7/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase and Lois Wagner Porcelain Fund

Object number2025-7

DescriptionPunch bowl: short tapered foot ring supports circular bowl of bulbous slightly flared shape; decorated in underglaze blue; the exterior painted in the round with a mountainous landscape, a man and his dog hunting quail in the foreground; the interior painted with a trellis diaper and scroll border interrupted by four alternating c-scroll bordered reserves, two containing floral sprigs and two with birds on branches; the interior painted with a central figure of a baby Bacchus astride a spigot-ed barrel and raising a beaker in one hand and wielding a jug in the other, the jug painted with a man aiming his fowler in a stance similar to that painted on the exterior of the bowl.
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ProvenanceWith Klaber & Klaber (London, England) until September 11, 1980, when it was acquired by Mr. Walton Temple (North Tyneside, England). It was then sold, June 17, 2014, at Anderson and Garland Auctions (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) where it was acquired by Roderick (Rod) J. Jellicoe. It remained in the collection of Roderick Jellicoe (London and Liverpool, England) until sold by Woolley and Wallis Auctioneers (Salisbury, England), September 3, 2024. There it was acquired by Robert Hunter (Yorktown, Virginia) in September 2024 and subsequently sold to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, Virginia) in January 2025 where it remains to the present.