Chinese export punch bowl

Chinese

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

1750 - 1799

Exterior painted in blue enamel showing an English couple in the countryside strolling to a church with their 12 children in pairs behind. Interior shows a hen and 12 chicks, some drinking from a basin and some huddled in her feathers.

• Medium: porcelain
• Art Fund Grant: £10910 ( Total: £44,625)
• ArtFunded in: 1999
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

Earle Vandekar 1970; private American collection; Christie's, New York.

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