A MASSIVE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE PUNCH BOWL

18TH CENTURY

Brightly enamelled to the exterior with panels containing scenes of figures and attendants in domestic settings and rocky fenced gardens, bordered by stylized gilt scrolls and bats, divided by smaller panels of landscape scenes and birds, all reserved on a gilt cell diaper ground above a band of key fret, the interior with a wide band depicting blossoming peony, chrysanthemum, prunus, and rose hips with butterflies and other insects, the well with a central roundel painted with a shepherdess and her flock, encircled by a band of Moor fish amongst ferns, 55.2cm.

Provenance: Lieutenant-General John Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane, FRS (1762-1834) of Taymouth Castle, and thence by family descent.

Cf. The National Archives of Scotland, where this bowl is recorded in the 1880 Christie, Manson and Woods inventory of Taymouth Castle, located in the Tapestry Sitting Room, no.369.