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Punchbowl Item Info
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- Title:
- Punchbowl
- Date:
- 18th century
- Description:
- Chinese porcelain punch bowl with overglaze enamel
- Marks/Inscriptions :
- Labels reading "Ella Kent Barnard", "Bowl-1932-14-16", " 'Old Rose' Bowl
- Geographies:
- China, North America
- Material:
- Porcelain
- Provenance:
- Ella Kent Bernard
- Material History:
- Export Chinese porcelain piece for Western audience. Kaolin body formed and fired in Jingdezhen
- Quaker connection:
- Ella Kent Bernard
- Object Story, Consumption and Use:
- Porcelain punch bowls used as centerpice and status symbols for parties.
- Research Sources:
- 1. “72 Hours in Jingdezhen, China,” Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), October 13, 2025, https://moca-ny.org/2025/10/13/72-hours-in-jingdezhen-china/. 2. “What Is Famille Rose Porcelain?” Skinner Auctioneers Blog, accessed October 22, 2025, https://www.skinnerinc.com/news/blog/what-is-famille-rose-porcelain/. 3. Hui Tang, “‘The Finest of Earth’: The English East India Company’s Enamelled Porcelain Trade at Canton during the Eighteenth Century,” Artefact 8 (2018): 69-88, accessed November 8, 2025, https://journals.openedition.org/artefact/1964 4. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Chinese Export Art: The Thirteen Hongs Collection, University of Cambridge, accessed November 8, 2025, https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/thirteen-hongs. 5. Philippe Colomban, “Non-Invasive Raman Analysis of 18th Century Chinese Enamelled Porcelain: Evidence for Imported Technologies,” Heritage 5, no. 1 (2022): 13, accessed November 8, 2025, https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage5010013. 6. “Punch Bowls,” DIGIT.EN.S, accessed October 22, 2025, https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/punch-bowls.html. 7. “East and West: Chinese Export Porcelain,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accessed October 22, 2025, https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/east-and-west-chinese-export-porcelain. 8. “Barnard Family Object Records,” TriArte: Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections, accessed October 22, 2025, https://triarte.brynmawr.edu/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20any%20%22barnard%22&sort=0&page=11.
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpg
- Accession Number:
- SC-FHL-R-0015
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Punchbowl", From Local to Global - Consumption and the Quaker Body, Swarthmore College, https://swat-ds.github.io/material-culture/material-culture/items/mc012.html