[Chinese export ware punchbowl featuring a scene of Sydney Cove before 1820]

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[Chinese export ware punchbowl featuring a scene of Sydney Cove before 1820]

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[Chinese export ware punchbowl featuring a scene of Sydney Cove before 1820]

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Full title

[Chinese export ware punchbowl featuring a scene of Sydney Cove before 1820]

Date

[before 1820]

Call Numbers

SAFE/XR 10 , Status: On display - The Collectors’ Gallery, Case 2, Shelf 30 and Shelf 34

Record Identifier

Yr8RB7Xn

Reference Code

421505

Formats

Objects

Physical Description

Contents

1 punchbowl - Height: 17.7 cm., Diam. (top): 45.5 cm. ; Footring: 2.5 cm. high x 22.5 cm. diam. - enamelled porcelain

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Level of description

Fonds

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Issue Copy

Digitised

Subjects

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Scope and Contents

Contents

The exterior painted with a continuous scene of Sydney Cove punctuated by a monogram in gilt, now rather illegible, which may read "HCA" with the letter "B" beneath. The inner and outer borders of the rim are of a gilded Chinese floral design. In the bowl's interior are a group of Aboriginal figures.

The image is from the eastern shore of Sy...

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Full title

[Chinese export ware punchbowl featuring a scene of Sydney Cove before 1820]

Notes

General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 823881...

Object History

The provenance of the Mitchell Library's punchbowl is documented in a manuscript note (Ap 64/Folder 1) compiled when it was presented to the Library by the Sydney antiques dealer W. A. Little in November 1926. Its early ownership is not known, but by the early 20th century, it was in the possession of a Miss Hall of `Highfield', Hythe, UK. Her fath...