A Chinese teabowl and saucer early 18th century

A Chinese teabowl and saucer early 18th century, the finely potted forms left in the white and later-decorated with the Cherry Picker pattern, a man up a tall ladder plucking reddish fruits from the branches of a tree, while a couple sit below enjoying a basket of his labours, a small village scene in the distance, the teabowl's interior and saucer's underside with a repeated smaller vignette of the same village, 11.8cm. (2)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no. 820. Purchased from Geoffrey Waters, December 2000.

Illustrated: Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, p.165, pl.13 for the saucer.

See lot 320 for a discussion of the so-called Cherry Picker pattern and its possible association to William IV and Anne of Hanover.