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Bowl (Punch or Hong bowl)
1780-1790
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
2000.0061.073
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Leo A. and Doris C. Hodroff
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Object Number
2000.0061.073
Object Name
Bowl (Punch or Hong bowl)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1780-1790
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: White, rectangular paper label with "HONG BOWL- 14 3/16" DIA./CHINA EXP. PAINTED IN/MANDARIN PALATE-/BUSTLING PEARL RIVER AT/CANTON- HONGS FLYING/EUROPE FLAGS- 1750 1508" handwritten in black and red ink
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: White, rectangular paper label with "1508 ILLUST/BY LE CORBEILER-/"POTTERY OF EXCHANGE/P. 115 + 16 HOWARD +/AYERS VOL. I P. 209" handwritten in black and red ink
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Blue, rounded rectangular paper label with "26" in white lettering
Mark/Signature: No
Subject(s)
- Hong Bowl
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Painted
- Enameled
- Gilded
Dimensions (inches)
6.102 (H) x 14.173 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
15.5 (H) x 36 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Fuchs, Ronald W. & Howard, David Sanctuary. 2005 Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur. 208 p.
• Published: pp. 138-39 (Fig. 88) Dated 1780-1790Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 1994 The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated from the Hodroff Collection.
• Published: pp. 200-1 (Fig. 233) Dated c. 1785.Book: Vinhais, Luisa & Jorge Welsh Oriental Porcelain and Works of Art. 2016 A Time and a Place.
• Detailed discussions of several hong bowls, fans, and related wares: pp. 320-47Catalogue: 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.).
• Another polychrome hong bowl: vol. 1, pp. 138-9, no. 2.2Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 1984 New York and the China Trade. 142 p.
• Hong bowl: p. 77, B15, c. 1785-1788Book: Howard, David Sanctuary & Ayers, John. 1978 China for the West.
• Hong bowl: p. 209, fig. 207, c. 1785Book: Howard, David Sanctuary & Ayers, John. 1978 China for the West.
• Decoration and history: p. 209Book: Fuchs, Ronald W. & Howard, David Sanctuary. 2005 Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur. 208 p.
• Similar bowl: p. 138, pl. 88Book: Brawer, Catharine Coleman. 1992 Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ethel (Mrs. Julius) Liebman and Arthur L. Liebman Porcelain Collection.
• Hong bowl: p. 24, pl. 4Book: Lange, Amanda E. 2005 Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield.
• Hong bowls at Historic Deerfield: pp. 243-47, nos. 103-104, noting (p. 246) a "hong bowl descended in the family of Benjamin George Eyre (b. 1738), an aide-de-camp to George Washington."Book: Nadler, Daniel. 2001 China to Order: Focusing on the XIXth Century and Surveying Polychrome Export Porcelain, Produced During the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1908.
• Hongs and hong bowls: pp. 44-49Book: Herbert, Peter & Schiffer, Nancy N. 1980 China for America: Export Porcelain of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 223 p.
• Hong bowl with similar decoration and clarity to the figures and courtyards: p. 193Book: Lu, Zhangshen. 2012 Passion for Porcelain: Masterpieces of Ceramics from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
• Hong bowl with hong painting and hong scene on fan (Chinese): pp. 108-9, no. 015, bowl 1780-90Book: Rhode Island Historical Society. 1965 The John Brown House loan exhibition of Rhode Island furniture : including some notable portraits, Chinese export porcelain & other items.
• Hong bowl owned by John Brown, Providence, RI: pp. 146-47, no. 97, may have been imported in 1787.Book: Sargent, William R. 2014 Chinese Porcelain in the Conde Collection.
• Hong bowl, made before direct trade with America (without US flag): pp. 278-79, no. 114Book: Le Corbeiller, Clare. 1974 China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange.
• Hong bowl without American flag: pp. 115-17, no. 49