Description: Very large 16" Across x 8 1/4" tall, Circa 1790, Grape leaves, Cattails, Dolphins, entwined Navel rope, knots & Anchor gold painted motif Punch bowl of significant Historical interest! As shown to base large 4 1/2" black painted anchor mark along with other associated impressed Marks as shown in pics 8 and 10. One 2 1/2" tight hairline to footed base as shown in photo 9. CHRISTIE, Captain CHARLES (d. 1812), of the Bombay Regiment, an Anglo-Indian officer under the command of Sir John Malcolm. In 1810, following Malcolm’s instructions, Christie and Lieutenant Henry Pottinger undertook an exploratory journey from Bombay to Baluchistan, previously unexplored territories north of Makrān, which were thought to provide a possible overland route by which a European army might invade India. Disguised as horse dealers, the two men made their way north from the Makrān coast to Nushki, where they separated in March. Christie proceeded north through Sīstān to Herat and thence across the central Persian desert to Yazd and Isfahan, where he was reunited with Pottinger. An abstract of his journal is appended to Pottinger’s account of this expedition (pp. 406-11), which provided the first reliable information about these territories. At the request of the British envoy to Persia, Sir Harford Jones, Christie and a number of other officers entered Persian service, forming the nucleus of the military mission provided for in the Preliminary Treaty that he had negotiated with the shah in 1809. Christie was charged with training the Persian infantry one of twelve newly formed infantry regiments in Azerbaijan. He also participated in military action against the Russians. When in 1812, after news of the reconciliation between Great Britain and Russia had reached Persia, the new British ambassador, Sir Gore Ouseley, withdrew the British officers from Persian service. Christie and two other officers, Henry Lindsay and William Monteith, and thirteen sergeants, were permitted to remain at the express request of Crown Prince commander of the Persian army. Christie and Lindsay participated in the battle.
Price: 1895 USD
Location: Dallas, Texas
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