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Lot 3224
Two Chinese Export Porcelain Punch Bowls
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first, late 18th century, in the famille verte palette, with alternating vignettes depicting figures creating silk to weave and fisherman at sea against a patterned gilt ground, foliate spray to the interior (5 x 12 1/4 in. dia.); the second, a Judgement of Paris bowl, circa 1750, porcelain punch bowl hand painted with a continuous narrative to the exterior sides of the famous mythological scene showing the seated Paris handing Venus the golden apple while Juno, Minerva, Cupid, and a dog look on, interior well with floral spray and gilt ruyi head border at the rim (4 3/4 x 11 in. dia.).

The Estate of the late Dr. Larry Southworth, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Both with hairlines and repairs.