Author: Ellis, Elizabeth.
Title: The Sydney Punchbowl.
Description: Sydney, Potts Point Hordern House Rare Books, 2013. Hardback wide octavo, dustjacket (with side flaps), very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), colour text-photos, maps, frontispiece. 135 pp. Elizabeth Ellis investigates the milieu and the mysteries of the "Sydney Punchbowl", one of the treasures of the Mitchell Library collection of the State Library of New South Wales - a fine and large porcelain bowl manufactured in China as export ware about 1820. The Punchbowl is decorated with a hand-painted panoramic scene of Sydney Cove around the outside and a group of Aboriginal figures as the inner centre-piece, and finished with Chinese-style floral and gilded bandings. Hordern House is issuing a deluxe limited edition replica handcrafted by Chinese craftsmen in Jingdezhen, China. Includes a brief essay on the making of the replica. ISBN: 9781875567720

Keywords: art, decorative arts, ceramics, porcelain, australian history, libraries, library, asia, china, new south wales (nsw), sydney 9781875567720


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