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Lot Essay
Just a handful of beautifully enameled bowls depict this dual vision of hunting, East and West. The English foxhunt depicted on the interior is inspired by James Seymour paintings, which were conveyed to China through prints and became the subject of numerous hunting bowls in the second half of the 18th century, while the two Chinese tiger hunt scenes are found on a small number of bowls of this same period.
A very similar example in the Winterthur Museum is illustrated by Hervouet (op.cit., p. 76), who also shows one other that had been in the collection of Peter Perring Thomas of the British East India Co.
A very similar example in the Winterthur Museum is illustrated by Hervouet (op.cit., p. 76), who also shows one other that had been in the collection of Peter Perring Thomas of the British East India Co.