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Description: | Deep circular punch bowl with straight sloping sides and prominent footring. Decorated with a bluish-white tin-glaze, interior painted with a landscape depicting the naval attack on Portobello of 1739. Five ships and one smaller vessel in foreground, entering port with fortresses to left and right foreground, church and town in background to right and hills in distance to left. Jetty in background to right, with fortress at one end surrounded by boats. Clouds of smoke from gun and cannon fire surround foreground boats. Battle scene encircled by plain band inscribed 'a health we drink unto our wives the pritty gerles and swithartes too god prosper Long our Capttin and our offesers our goodly ship and Thovill Crew 1743' terminating in a heart pierced by two crossed arrows and a star. Wide border inside rim, comprising four shaped panels each enclosing mimosa flowers, insects and parallel vertical bars, between narrow panels of flowers in white against a cobalt blue ground. Exterior sides painted with Chinese water scene comprising geese among rocks and water plants, with two circular medallions on opposite sides enclosing British ships. Rim edged in brown.
Technique: thrown
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: cobalt blue
Material: tin-glazed
Material: painted in-glaze
punch bowl made in England, Liverpool (probably), 1743, (1923.339). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2568 | Go to resource |
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