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Lot 281

A documentary Swansea pottery punch bowl, circa 1820

Fine Glass and British Ceramics
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A documentary Swansea pottery punch bowl, circa 1820

Of very large size, printed in outline and brightly hand-coloured on both the interior and exterior with the 'Mandarin' pattern, a repeating group of five figures beside a Chinese building, borders of iron red river landscape and bird panels edged in scrollwork just below the rim, 37.2cm diam, incised 'I W' inside footrim (restored crack)

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This pattern usually occurs on Swansea porcelain as pattern number 164, occasionally bearing a family crest within the border design. Its use on pearlware suggests the difficulties that the porcelain factory may have had in successfully firing such a large piece, perhaps resorting to an earthenware body to fulfil an order. Other significant Swansea punch bowls are recorded in earthenware. Two bowls presented to the corporations of Swansea and Loughor by John Bevington are discussed by E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw (1942), pages 135-136 and plate LIII. The incised 'I W' mark stands for Isaac Wood, modeller and manager at the Cambrian Pottery during the Bevington Period. A similarly incised Swansea biscuit porcelain model of a ram was sold by Bonhams 18 May 2016, lot 414

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