A good pair of Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated teabowls and saucers c.1700

A good pair of Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated teabowls and saucers c.1700, the finely potted forms originally left plain, later-enamelled to all sides with high-handled baskets of flowers and circular panels of a fisherman beside a small building, reserved on a ground of pencilled red leaves against gilding, 10.6cm. (4)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no. 426. Purchased from James Norbury, July 1995.

This is a particularly fine example of the Baskets and Fisherman pattern so beloved of Dutch decorators in the first half of the 18th century.