An Extremely Rare Chinese Export Iron-Red, Gilt and Grisaille-Decorated European-Subject 'Figural' Punch Bowl Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, Circa 1745 | 清乾隆 約1745年 墨彩礬紅描金西洋人物故事圖盌

An Extremely Rare Chinese Export Iron-Red, Gilt and Grisaille-Decorated European-Subject 'Figural' Punch Bowl Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, Circa 1745

清乾隆 約1745年 墨彩礬紅描金西洋人物故事圖盌

painted en grisaille within a gilt roundel on the front with a young man entering a bedroom and observing a woman and a boy asleep on a canopied bed near a seated cat and a cadle on the floor, and on the reverse with a woman presenting a maiden wearing a décolleté dress to a seated gentleman whose servant holds a box of coins

diameter 10 1/2 in.; 26.7 cm