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Culture:English
Title:punch bowl
Date Made:ca. 1755
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: tin-glazed earthenware decorated in cobalt blue, manganese purple, and white
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; London
Measurements:overall: 4 in x 9 1/16 in; 10.16 cm x 23.01875 cm
Accession Number:  HD 56.311
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English delft punch bowl decorated in blue, purple, and white with the well inscription "One/ Bowl More/ And then." over a paraph, surrounded by a band of a bianco-sopra-bianco flower and leaf pattern. The toast is a shortened version of the eighteenth-century saying "one Bowl of punch more, and then we part." This phrase appeared as the motto below a satirical coat of arms entitled "The Drunkard's Arms," which was issued as a print in the mid-eighteenth century. Other recorded variations are "One More Bowl Will", "One Bowl More", "The Other Bowl and Then." The exterior is decorated in blue and purple with a chinoiserie landscape with a large pagoda, running fence with a cracked ice design, river, bridge, small building, rocks, trees, and foliage. This combination of interior bianco and exterior chinoiserie decoration is found on a large group of bowls, many with a 1755 date; at least a dozen recorded punch bowls have the same exterior scene in cobalt blue and manganese purple. Three of these bowls are dated 1755, including one decorated with the arms of the Gardener's Company of London. "One bowl..." is the most common inscription on these bowls, but other inscriptions include "Success to the British Arms" (see HD 94.021) and "Success to the King of Prussia". The London attribution is based on related bowls, bianco pattern, and glaze. Although bianco-sopra-bianco decoration also is found on Bristol delftware, that on the Historic Deerfield bowl is more consistent with ornament on factory waste excavated in London. The combination on delftware punch bowls of bianco-sopra-bianco decoration, pagoda scenes in blue and manganese, and inscriptions was a popular one, and several such ornamented bowls are dated from the same year. One example includes the same interior inscription as Deerfield's bowl but has the words "John Parkhurt / 1755" under the base. Two others commemorate candidates in an Oxfordshire parliamentary race: one is inscribed "WENMAN & DASHWOOD FOOR EVER / ONE MORE / AND THEN / 1755"; and the other just "WENMAN : & : DASHWOOD: / FOR : EVER. / 1755"-this one has different exterior chinoiserie motifs in the same color range. Another 1755 example is dedicated "Dirick.Nilsen/Bergen" and a wonderful bowl reproducing the Arms of the Gardeners' Company of London is inscribed "Immortal Punch That Elevates The Soul It Makes Us Demi Gods When O'er A Flowing Bowl." Bianco-sopra-bianco is decorative form where a painted design in a brilliant white pigment stands out against a tinted ground. Late fifteenth-century Italian potters first developed this technique, called 'bianchetto', but its revival in the eighteenth century is probably connected to decorated Chinese export porcelains. Underglaze carved decoration (known as 'an hua') and overglaze white enameling on Chinese porcelains directly inspired their imitation on delftwares. The bianco sopra bianco technique first appeared in Europe on Italian maiolica of the late 15th or early 16th century but it was not long lived and disappeared. The bianco technique was first revived at the Swedish factory of Rörstrand sometime before 1745, and seems likely that the decorative technique was brought to England by Magnus Lundberg, a Swedish potter who had worked at the Rörstrand factory. Lundberg eventually settled in Bristol around 1750 to become a pot-painter and master at the Richard Frank's Redcliff Back pottery.

Tags:
pagodas

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