A Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated teapot and cover 1st quarter 18th century

A Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated teapot and cover 1st quarter 18th century, originally simply decorated with wide bands of cash diaper containing small panels of ruyi, later decorated in the Kakiemon palette with a tiger chasing a flying insect beside prunus and pine issuing from a rocky mound, 18cm. (2)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no.589. Purchased from Jonathan Bennett, March 1997.