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Title Chinese Imari Punch Bowl
Library Nantucket Historical Association
Date c. 1720-1730
Description Porcelain decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze red enamel, with gilding. Design derived from a Japanese palette, a popular export style during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. The crack it exhibits was sustained during the Boston earthquake of 1755.
Document Type Object
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce; Arts and Artefacts
Keywords porcelain, export, enamel, flowers, flora and fauna, bowl, earthquake
Countries USA; China
Places Boston
Additional Information Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from From Brant Point to the Boca Tigris: Nantucket and the China Trade by Michael A Jehle, Nantucket Historical Association, 1994.
Copyright Nantucket Historical Association