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Premier Auction - Session II - February 4, 2023

Sat, Feb 4, 2023 09:00AM EST
Lot 758

Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Punch Bowl, Barlow

Estimate: $600 - $900

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

circa 1740, punch bowl centered with Barlow arms, impaling Cooke, left side of arms Barlow, having three horizontal black stripes, at the top an eagle with spread wings, on half gilt and white ground, the right side impaling Cooke, depicting two iron red lion passant on gilt and iron red ground, the whole flanked with two eagles and surmounted with an eagle's head between two wings on helmet, all above motto "Hic posu isse gaudet", interior of bowl with gilt leaf rim, 10-1/8 in.

Note: "This family of Barlow lived near Sheffield"

Chinese Armorial Porcelain Volume I, David S. Howard, Faber & Faber, 31 May 1974, p. 284.

Provenance: Heirloom & Howard, Ltd., UK, June 2005; Christopher M. Weld, Essex, Massachusetts

Condition

spotting, discoloration, anomalies (as made), scratching, wear to gilt and paint decoration, label to base, black light fluoresces reveals large semicircle repaired crack, approximately 9 inches, hairline crack to arms, approximately 3-1/2 inches.