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Punch bowl: C.2415-1928

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Maker(s)

Factory: Greek A Factory
Proprietor: Eenhoorn, Samuel van

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue in Chinese style

Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. Circular with deep curved sides sloping outwards towards the rim, and standing on a footring. The outside is decorated with Chinese figure subjects: a prisoner wearing the cang, two beggars rubbing their foreheads together and a third with smoke issuing from his head, aman carrying a book under his arm attended by a porter with packages slung from a pole, and a man holding a sword attended by a man with a parasol. Between the figures are groups of trees and rocks. On the inside, are a lady and a boy with a bird in a garden.

Notes

History note: Captain I. L. Asherton of the Antiquarian Guild Limited, 4 Carlton Street, Regent Street, London, SW1, from whom bought on 2 July 1924 for £4.10; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 24.7 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Delft ⪼ Holland ⪼ Netherlands

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

17th Century, Late
Circa 1678 - 1686

Note

The prisoner and beggars were copied in reverse from illustrations in Jan Nieuhoff's 'Het Gezandtschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den Grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China (Amsterdam, 1665). The English translation, by John Ogilby tells on pp. 170-1, 'Some . . use another Art of Begging, which is to knock their heads together like distracted persons, so that Spectators would believe their Brains were ready to flye out, or themselves fall Dead upon the ground . . . There is also another sort of Beggars here, that set fire to a combustible kind of stuff upon their Heads, which they suffer to burn there with excessive pain and torment till they have extorted some Charity from the transient Company with their howling and crying, enduring very great misery all that while.'

School or Style

Chinese

Components of the work

Decoration composed of cobalt-blue
Surface

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Throwing (pottery technique) : Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue and manganese-purple

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: SVE monogram and 7
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Painted in purple
  • Type: Factory mark

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2415-1928
Primary reference Number: 73471
Old object number: 4379
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 10 October 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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