AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME PUNCH-BOWL
CIRCA 1720-30, PROBABLY BRISTOL OR LONDON
The exterior painted in blue, green and iron-red red with cartouches enclosing two-handled vases issuing flowers, alternating with smaller flower panels against a blue ground with scrolling foliage, the interior with a river scene of a swan, fish and rushes below a scrollwork border (several small restored rim chips, two short hairline cracks and minor flaking to upper rim with some retouching, hairline crack to base, slight chipping to footrim, typical crazing to glaze)
13¼ in. (33.6 cm.) diam.
AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME PUNCH-BOWL
CIRCA 1720-30, PROBABLY BRISTOL OR LONDON
The exterior painted in blue, green and iron-red red with cartouches enclosing two-handled vases issuing flowers, alternating with smaller flower panels against a blue ground with scrolling foliage, the interior with a river scene of a swan, fish and rushes below a scrollwork border (several small restored rim chips, two short hairline cracks and minor flaking to upper rim with some retouching, hairline crack to base, slight chipping to footrim, typical crazing to glaze)
13¼ in. (33.6 cm.) diam.