D E L FT WARE iBeverage Wares 
 
 
Punch Bowls 
 
 
D314. PUNCH BOWL 
Liverpool 
Dated "27:June 1749" 
 
 
H.: 3 3/4" (9.5 cm); Diam.: 9"(22.9 cm) 
 
 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained pale buff. 
TIN GLAZE: Slightly bluish white with 
blue and gray speckling. Overall, 
excluding footrim edge. 
SHAPE: Thrown Flat bottom with tall, 
slightly flaring footrim, nearly cylindri- 
 
 
  his piece, probably commissioned while the ship was at port in Liverpool
in 
 
June 1749,' is among the earliest dated punch bowls depicting large, more-or-

less realistic ships on their interiors. This bowl is unusual for the simplicity
of 
its exterior decoration.2 The ship's ensign is of the type used by the East
India 
Company from April 17, 1707, to January 1, 1801,.2 and it is reasonable to
assume 
that Partridge was in their employ. For fairly realistic depictions of ships
on 
delftware plates, see numbers D98-D100. 
 
 
cal on interior. 
D EC O RAT I O N: Painted. Interior bears 
sailing ship with inscription "Win 
Partridge ÷/Liverpool, 27:June 1749." Bor- 
der composed of circle and trelliswork 
band. Exterior bears trelliswork bands, 
one with floral reserves, the other with 
 
 
flower-and-scroll reserves. 
 
 
Published. Wortney, Jackson, p. 133, fig. 33. 
 
 
1. For Liverpool porcelain ship howls, sonie with 
nsotits relating to those ont delftware examples, 
see Watney and Roberts. liverpool Ship Bowls. 
2. See ILipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, 
nos. 1117 1217 passlim. br examples with dates 
lIron 1747 to 1779, Watney, lackson, for other 
delltware examples. 
.3 Archer comments 11998) state the India Office 
Library does niot bind William Partridge in their 
current indices. 
 
 
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