18TH CENTURY HUNTING SCENE

On opposite sides cartouches depict in faithful detail an English fix hunting scene, very similar 10 those copied from engravings after James Seymour (1702 - 1752), possibly by Thomas Burford (1710 - 1754) about 1753 demonstrating the Oriental porcelain artists' skill at adapting European engravings to the decorative purpose required. The cartouches exist on a finely executed Y-shaped cell diaper ground in gold, black and iron red with a gilt spearhead rim band at the foot. In the centre a medallion contains a scene with a hunter and his dogs in a landscape. It is recorded that a hunt punch bowl such as this was among the goods in the very first Export cargo landed by a US ship, The Empress of China in 1784.