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Punch-bowl
Punch-bowl, cream-coloured earthenware, heavily blued pearl-glaze shrinking at the base; wheel-thrown, a little warped; high foot ring and straight sides; painted in a streaky underglaze blue, the exterior with a continuous Chinese landscape of shrubs, trees, rocks, houses, lattice fences and a bridge over a river, the interior with a circular rayed reserve of a large swan swimming between two rocks with sprouting bulrushes and with a pike rising below, the lip with a border of scales and pendent tassels.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32261
Acquisition
Gift, 8/2/1994
Given by W. J. Grant-Davidson
Measurements
Height
(cm): 12.7
diam
(cm): 28.2
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 11
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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