Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 115
A Liverpool creamware 'ship' punch bowl, circa 1765-70
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£600 - £800
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Fergus Gambon
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Jim Peake
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A Liverpool creamware 'ship' punch bowl, circa 1765-70
Perhaps painted by William Jackson, the interior painted in black with a brig in full sail, highlighted in blue, red, green and yellow, sailing on a green 'sea' panel, inscribed 'SUCCESS TO THE PROVIDENCE/ CAPT WILLIAM DABNAHAM' below, a scrolled green border to the rim reserved with red and yellow florets, the exterior decorated with four printed scenes, probably by Sadler and Green, depicting a sailors' punch party, a group of gentlemen also drinking punch, Amphitrite rising from the waves, and Neptune in his chariot pulled by hippocampi, 29.5cm diam
Footnotes
Provenance
With Jonathan Horne
William Dabnaham was Captain of the Providence, belonging to the Port of Yarmouth, from at least 1775. The Hampshire Chronicle records the ship entering Portsmouth under his command on 15 June that year. The ship was still under his command in 1787, when he apprenticed 13 year old Frederick Sanders in the art of a mariner or husbandry. He died in Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, in 1799 at the age of 80. For a discussion of the attribution of the painting of these ship bowls to William Jackson, a distinctive painter active from around 1756 to 1794, see Bernard Watney, 'William Jackson of Liverpool', ECC Trans, Vo.15, Pt.1 (1993), pp.122-33.