punch-bowl BM-Franks.1403

Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1779 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,

Dimensions:Diameter: 14.50 inches Height: 6 inches

Description:
‘Famille rose’ punchbowl with English harvest scenes. This punchbowls is decorated inside and out with scenes of harvesting. It is inscribed ‘Felden Farm’ and ‘Harvest Home’, with the initials ‘J C’ and the date 1779. The bowl shows on one side labourers scything and bundling corn, and on the other collecting and carrying the corn sheaves, observed by a group of peasant women, one of whom is suckling a child. These two scenes are enclosed in shaped panels and alternate with the inscriptions and harvest supper scenes in smaller panels. The insides depict farm labourers piling up a strawstack, watched by a woman who leans against a wicker basket and supervised by a well-dressed gentleman in a tricorne hat. The inner rim has an elaborate shaped diaper border with butterflies and fruit-and-flower garlands.
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图片[1]-punch-bowl BM-Franks.1403-China Archive 图片[2]-punch-bowl BM-Franks.1403-China Archive 图片[3]-punch-bowl BM-Franks.1403-China Archive

Comments:Harrison-Hall 1994:The source of these designs is probably an 18th-century English print and these punchbowls appear to have been made for use in specific English country estates. Only punchbowls and large jugs are known with such harvest scenes. A large jug in a private collection is identical both in its inscription and decoration to this bowl (Hervouet and Bruneau, 1986, no. 4.17 a,b,c). Other punchbowls with this decoration include an example in the British Museum inscribed ‘Thornby’ and ‘Harvest Home’ with the initials ‘J C ‘and the date ‘1779’ (BM 1963.0422.14); others without inscriptions are in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I, pl. 283), and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Phillips, 1956, pl. 13). See also BM Franks 625B.
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