punch bowl

Punch bowl painted in blue on a white glaze. The exterior depicts a landscape with a standing man pointing at a man on horseback, a walled settlement with a tower, a country villa, two men walking together with one carrying a jar on his head. The interior depicts 'A MIDNIGHT MODERN CONVERSATION' after William Hogarth. The scene shows eleven men in a private room in a tavern consuming alcohol and smoking tobacco pipes around a table.There is a large punch bowl in the centre from whch a man is ladelling punch. The punch bowl has a grapevine border and a brown rim edge.