A Chinese porcelain tea canister and cover 1st half 18th century

A Chinese porcelain tea canister and cover 1st half 18th century, the hexafoil-lobed ovoid form originally left in the white, applied with a band of scrolling decoration just above the foot, later-enamelled in red, green, black and gilt with baskets of flowers and smaller panels of a fisherman beside buildings, against a ground of scrolling red leaves reserved on gilt, 13.2cm. (2)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no. 485. Purchased from Geoffrey Waters, January 1996.