Punch Bowl
Chinese export porcelain (China)
c. 1769
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, glaze, with enamels in colors, and gilding
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- 11.1 × 26.4 cm (4 3/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- China
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This bowl displays portraits copied from a broadside printed in London in June 1768. The portraits depict the Englishmen John Wilkes (left), an outspoken advocate of political reform and American liberty, and Lord Mansfield (right), who tried to silence Wilkes with charges of libel. Satirical coats of arms surround their portraits. Wilkes is flanked by his close associates and defenders, while Lord Mansfield appears with George III and the devil by his side. American colonists viewed Wilkes as an avatar of liberty and free speech.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
