Description:
English small pearlware punch bowl inscribed "Pass it / Round" in the center well of the bowl. Traditional eighteenth-century recipes for punch included five ingredients: spirits (rum, brandy, or arrack), citrus (lime, orange, or lemon), spices, sugar, and water. Punch could either be ladled into wineglasses or drunk directly from the bowl. This small example could have been was used by one person or shared with a group where everyone drank directly from this bowl. It is decorated with the high temperature underglaze oxide "Prattware" colors of brown, blue, orange, and green, a palette developed by the potter, William Pratt, at his factory in Lane Delph, Staffordshire. These are the typical range of colors available for underglaze painted decoration, a palette limited to colors derived from metallic oxides that could withstand the heat of the glaze firing. The bowl has a brown line is painted on the interior and exterior rims; a meandering vine with leaves with a string of alternating blue dots and orange leaves around the interior rim; and three floral sprigs around the exterior sides. The circular molded foot has a small chip to foot rim, and the side of the bowl has a star-shaped crack.
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