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Description: | Public:
Pair of large circular punch bowls, white earthenware, with transfer-printed Chinoiserie landscapes in cobalt blue beneath a pearlware glaze.
Private:
Deep circular bowl with wide prominent footring. Interior printed in underglaze cobalt blue with Chinoiserie landscape comprising fenced garden with two pagoda-like buildings on the banks of a river. Bridge to left on which stand two Chinese men, one fishing, the other carrying large flag, a gnarled tree in foreground to left and vase of flowers on river bank to right. Fill in motif of oversized flowers to extreme right. Wide border printed to both sides of rim, comprising diaper ground containing single paterae, interrupted at intervals by stylised scrolling plants. Smaller border to rim, of alternating blue and white patches. Smaller version of border repeated around footring.
Technique: thrown
Technique: transfer printing
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: printed underglaze
Material: cobalt blue
Material: pearlware glaze
punch bowl made in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe, c 1800, (1917.354/2). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.806 | Go to resource |
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