A Chinese Export Famille-Rose Hunting-Subject Punch Bowl Circa 1765

the exterior painted with four hunting scenes composed as a continuous landscape divided by trees, the interior painted with a huntsman on a galloping horse.

The entire bowl (inside and outside) covered in a clear spray, extensive overpainting to the whire areas of the base, it is impossible to see the extent of the original damage but it appears to have been severely cracked at the base or broken.
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The hunting scenes depicted are taken from a set of four engravings after James Seymour (1705-52), titled 'Going out in the Morning', 'Brushing into Cover', 'In Full Chase' and 'The Death'. For further discussion on the source prints and a larger punch bowl of similar decoration, see David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, Vol. I, London, 1978, pp. 281-283. no. 280, which bowl, from the Mottahedeh collection, was sold at Sotheby's New York, October 19, 2000. lot 224.