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Bowl

Chinese export
about 1800
Object Place: East Asia, China for export

Medium/Technique Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration
Dimensions Overall: 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.)
Other (Overall): 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.153
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionPunch bowl on circular straight - sided foot. Decoration: Painted narrow band in gilt on foot; inner & outer faces of rim have bands of minute diaper pattern, black lines & spotted line of green. Same around 3 medallions on sides each containing painted urn. In bottom, bouquet of flowers in colors and shell form in orange-pink.
ProvenanceBy 1921, Miss Martha C. Codman. M. and M. Karolik Collection; 1939, gift of M. and M. Karolik to the MFA.