Description:
Large Chinese Export Porcelain Punch Bowl, c. 1820, deep round bowl, the exterior depicting pastoral scenes with a shepherdess, and a couple dining alfresco interspersed with flowering and fruiting branches, the interior depicting a reclining nude woman and a voyeur, with gilt and iron red flowering vine rim border, with a hardwood stand, (restoration, enamel wear to bowl center),ht. 7, dia. 15 7/8 in.
Provenance: Estate of Peter Rosenberg.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
There are cracks that have been repaired, barely detectable.
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