Punch Bowl

Dateca. 1765

MediumHard-paste porcelain

DimensionsDiameter: 15 7/8" OH: 6 1/4"

Credit LineGift of Murray F. Nimmo

Object number2013-140

DescriptionChinese export porcelain punchbowl with hunt scene taken from a set of four engravings after James Seymour. Opaque enamel huntsmen and their pack appear in four stages of a hunt: “Going out in the Morning,” “Brushing into Cover,” “In Full Chase” and “The Death of the Fox”. The scenes play out across a continuous hilly landscape. On the interior, a turquoise-coated huntsman courses on his white steed. A brown-edged, gilt spearhead border repeats around rim and footrim.

ProvenanceMurray F. Nimmo

Matthew and Elisabeth Sharpe, Spring Mill Antiques, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania; Raymond B. Knight Antiques, Inc., Locust Valley, New York, July 12, 1990