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A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'FOX HUNTING' BOWL
QIANLONG 1736-95
Painted with a continuous hunting scene with huntsmen and packs of hounds after a set of paintings by James Seymour (c.1702-52), with a band of spearheads to the foot, the interior with a mounted hunter and a floral band around the rim, the base with a paper label for Spink & Son, London, 39cm.
Provenance: from the collection of Mr George Athenogenes, London.
Cf. D S Howard, A Tale of Three Cities, Canon, Shanghai & Hong Kong, p.118, pl.144.