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Bowl (Punch bowl)
1800-1815
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
1957.0063
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Object Number
1957.0063
Object Name
Bowl (Punch bowl)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1800-1815
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Location: Exterior of wall
Inscription: Hand-painted enamel "The strength and wealth of the Nanon [or Nation]"
Type: Inscription
Location: Exterior of wall
Inscription: Hand-painted "E PLUPIE UNUUM" (sic)
Mark/Signature: No
Subject(s)
- Armorial device
- American eagle
- Grapevine
- American themed ceramics
- American market (Chinese manufacture)
- Great Seal of US
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Enameled
- Painted
- Gilded
Dimensions (inches)
4.449 (H) x 11.22 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
11.3 (H) x 28.5 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Catalogue: Chan, Libby Lai-Pak & Wan, Nina. 2018 The Dragon and the Eagle: American Traders in China, A Century of Trade from 1784–1900 (exhib. cat.).
• Published: vol. 1, pp. 336-37, no. 3.7; vol. 2, p. 257, fig. 13Book: Palmer, Arlene. 1976 A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain.
• Published: p. 141, fig. 96,Book: Hervouet, Francois, et al. 1986 La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a Decor Occidental.
• Published: p. 47, no. 2.34Book: Mudge, Jean McClure. 1981 Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, 1785-1835. 304 p.
• Published: figs. 101 a, bBook: Herbert, Peter & Schiffer, Nancy N. 1980 China for America: Export Porcelain of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 223 p.
• Published: p. 165.Book: Sargent, William R. 2012 Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics at the Peabody Essex Museum.
• Virtually identical example: p.416, no. 227, 1800-15Article: Choi, Ki Il. 2018 “’Partly Copies from European Prints’: Johannes Kip and the Invention of Export Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Canton. Rijksmuseum Bulletin. 2: 120–43.
• Virtually identical example in Peabody Essex collection: pp. 125-27, figs. 8–9, showing ship hull design source as pl. xxxvi, fig. 14 in Architectura navalis mercatoria, 1768Book: Conger, Clement E. & Rollins, Alexandra W. 1991 Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U. S. Department of State.
• Plate with very similar eagle and trophies and a Philadelphia history of ownership: pp. 282-83, no. 175, possibly owned by military engineer Sylvanus Thayer (1785-1872).