Unidentified, Gilles Demarteau, Charles Dagomer
Punch Bowl
1784-1794
Scroll
Unidentified, Gilles Demarteau, Charles Dagomer
Punch Bowl
1784-1794
Physical Qualities
Hard-paste porcelain with underglaze blue pigment and overglaze enamels, gilt decoration, 6 3/8 x 15 5/16 diam. in. (16.2 x 38.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Charlotte B. Filbert, Baltimore
Object Number
1993.615
European print sources provided the imagery for the exquisitely painted sepia images of predatory foxes making off with a chicken and a swan on this Chinese export porcelain punch bowl. The motifs are European, but the monochrome painting echoes the feeling of Chinese ink painting.
-David Park Curry, American Wing Reinstallation 2014
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David Howard and John Ayers 'China for the West,' Sotheby Park Bernet, London and New York, 1978. Volume I, p. 284, #282.
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