This Chinese porcelain punch bowl is adorned with symbols supporting American rights. Punch bowls and other everyday items were frequently used as a medium to convey support of colonial rights. Dated to about 1765, the bowl features two finely detailed, hand-painted images in grisaille (ink color), both based on English prints. One image depicts John Wilkes, taken from William Hogarth's May 16, 1763 engraving, and shows Wilkes holding a pole topped with a liberty cap, symbolizing his advocacy for colonial liberty in his newspaper The North Britain. The second image, titled “The Queen's Arms, A Night's Amusement” (first published August 13, 1764), portrays three men forcing a bowl of punch on a reluctant companion seated near sheet music and a musical instrument, likely a cello. The image may represent the British forcing the colonies to go along with English legislation.