914 - A Chinese export porcelain bowl with scenes of the hunt, Jiaqing ca. 1800. The exterior decorated in sepia monochrome: two larger cartouches depicting three hounds watching a rider approach a fence and the other depicting a hunter and hound at full gallop, both within a gilt, cobalt-blue, and iron-red border; between these two scenes are roundels with countryside landscapes with similar borders. The rim decorated with a series of gilt, cobalt-blue, and iron-red hatchwork, zig-zags, and foliate motifs. The central bowl decorated with a blue and gilt basket of flowers. Illustrated in: Howard & Ayers, "Masterpieces," pg. 50-51, no. 282. Howard & Ayers, "China for the West," pg. 284, no. 282. "Sekai Toji Zenshu," p. 237, fig. 345. Provenance: The W. Martin-Hurst Collection; Sotheby's, New York, "Important Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection," 30 January 1985, Lot 176; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Exhibition: China Institute in America, 1976, no. 39. Seattle Art Museum, 1976, no. 39. Virginia Museum, 1981-82. Lot Essay: A larger but otherwise identical bowl was illustrated in Jean Gordon Lee's "Philadelphians and the China Trade 1784-1844" where he indicates that the bowl "was one of a set in graduating sizes...presented to Samuel Morris [of Philadelphia, (1734-1812)] by the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club...of which he was a member from its formation in 1766 until his death, and [of which] he was chosen its first president after the Revolution." Howard and Ayers note that similar bowls were made for Americans including Samuel Spragg, Governor of Maryland (1819-1822), the aforementioned Samuel Morris, and John Seawell of Gloucester County, Virginia. Found mainly in America, this type of bowl often contains scenes of the Delaware River in intervening ovals on larger bowls. Height: 4 in x diameter: 9 1/4 in.