A Monumental Chinese Export Polychrome Porcelain Punch Bowl

CANTON CIRCA 1840

Diameter 23” (58 cm)   Height 9 ¼” (2.5 cm)

Good condition with no damage apart from minor wear to the gilt rim and the bowl interior.

Profusely painted with panels of Manchu courtly figures in palace pavilions alternating with panels of exotic birds among a foliate ground etched in gilt.

Provenance: Tusmore House Bicester Oxfordshire and by descent.




 


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