A Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated bowl 1st half 18th century

A Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated bowl 1st half 18th century, originally decorated with an anhua band between narrow hatched borders in underglaze blue, later-enamelled with a European figure on horseback beside a thatched building, a church spire and other buildings in the distance, within shaped panels on a hatched ground of red and black, the interior with peony sprays, 15cm dia.

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no. 871. Purchased from Geoffrey Waters, November 2002.