Punch bowl

Object/Artifact

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Punch bowl

Entry/Object ID

VC.59.29

Description

Punchbowl, large: polychrome, colors including orangy-red, purplish-red, brown, grey, black, gold, green, greenish-blue, blue, purple; hunting scenes. Interior: Baroque-framed roundel with standing figure, in European dress, with shot-pouch and fowling-piece; five hounds (of peculiarly Oriental visage) treeing two long-tailed gamebirds at left; landscape background. Interior border: floral, with zoomorphic masks; wide. Exterior: Large scene of fox hunt; hound pack (19 couples plus one), four mounted hunters, including two "whips", one dismounted hunter with horse, in pursuit of red fox running to right; background of palace walls, trees, blue sky with birds; all figures in European garb, with tricorns; horses grey, chestnut, bay, piebald. Exterior: large scene of fox hunt; four mounted hunters, in European dress, some with whips and horns; fifth figure, dismounted, stands with dead red fox over shoulder; hound pack (20 couples plus one) pursues naturalistic activites, some jumping at fox, others treeing long-tailed gamebirds at left. Large scenes, in baroque framing, flanked by two smaller scenes: at left, two standing figures in Oriental costume, and three hounds, which tree fox, at which hunter levels gun; second small scene has two Oriental hunters, one seated, one standing (with powder horn, fowling-piece, and dead pigeon-like birds over shoulder), accompanied by hound. Several smaller panels include small flowers and monochrome red landscapes. Ground of punchbowl filled with geometric designs of all-over pattern, in orangy-red, with touches of black and gold.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Notes

Dates: 1768 - 1799 Date made: r. 1768 - 1799

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

5 in

Diameter

11-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 5 x 11 1/2 in. (12.7 x 29.2 cm)

Material

Porcelain (hard-paste)

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Details of condition: Fair to Good. Badly chipped and cracked, December 1960. Repaired at unknown date.

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Miscellaneous: print upon which European hunting scenes is based has not yet been identified. Bowl seems particularly fine example of the type.

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Van Cortlandt Manor, Parlour