Chinese Export Mandarin Palette Porcelain Punch Bowl, circa 1760-1770, delicately painted with scroll-edged reserves of courtly figures at leisure upon terraces and before landscape vistas framed against an iron red fret ground embellished with miniature landscape cartouches in plum tones; corresponding interior framed by elaborate composite borders.

Height 5 in. Diameter 11 ¼ in.

From the Starbuck East Brick, Nantucket, MA