Extremely Rare and Important Chinese Export European Subject Initialed Punch Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, After 1759-1785 | 清乾隆 1759年後至1785 粉彩西洋錦鷄山水人物圖大盌

Extremely Rare and Important Chinese Export European Subject Initialed Punch Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, After 1759-1785

清乾隆 1759年後至1785 粉彩西洋錦鷄山水人物圖大盌

decorated after an English delftware original, painted inside in famille-rose enamels with a hen and twelve chicks within an elaborate border enclosing the initials W.B.M and the date 1759, the exterior decorated in blue enamel with a country scene of couples processing towards a small building, probably a church, the scene divided by a shield surmounted by a stag's head crest enclosing the initials J.M.M. and underneath with a ribbon inscribed GOADIELMING

Diameter 15 3/4 in.; 40 cm