Punch Bowl
ca. 1778-80 (made)
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Punch bowl of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze blue, enamels and gilded. Circular in shape and painted outside with fruit and flowers in nearly circular panels, reserved on an underglaze blue ground, and the fruit and flowers are painted in orange, green, blue, yellow and brown. Diapered with gold stars and trellis inside, a wavy border in underglaze blue with dotted circles in gold, and in the centre with fruit and flowers in orange, green, yellow, dark red and brown. Gold line borders and edge.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze blue, enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Circular punch bowl of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze blue, enamels and gilded, Seth Pennington's factory, Liverpool, ca. 1778-80. |
| Physical description | Punch bowl of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze blue, enamels and gilded. Circular in shape and painted outside with fruit and flowers in nearly circular panels, reserved on an underglaze blue ground, and the fruit and flowers are painted in orange, green, blue, yellow and brown. Diapered with gold stars and trellis inside, a wavy border in underglaze blue with dotted circles in gold, and in the centre with fruit and flowers in orange, green, yellow, dark red and brown. Gold line borders and edge. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A cross (Incised under the glaze) |
| Credit line | Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq. |
| Production | The enamelling and gilding have previously been attributed to the London workshop of James Giles. |
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| Bibliographic reference | For this pattern, see Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. 2011, pl. 9.6, where dated ca. 1778-80 |
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| Accession number | C.1155-1924 |
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| Record created | June 3, 2009 |
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