Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
Auction Closed
December 11, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A FAMILLE-ROSE 'HUNTING SCENE' PUNCH BOWL
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
the deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, brightly enamelled around the exterior with four cartouches of hunting scenes, the interior with a central roundel depicting a hunter with five hounds
Diameter 29.2cm, 11½in.
‘Spetchley Park -I. Worcestershire, The Seat of Mr. R. V. Berkeley', Country Life, 8 July 1916, p. 46, illustrated in the cabinet in the Drawing Room;
Inventory, 1949, 'An Oriental Kien Lung [sic] bowl, painted with hunting scenes, 11½" diameter' in the Drawing Room