#A good Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated teabowl and saucer 1st half 18th century

#A good Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated teabowl and saucer 1st half 18th century, the finely potted form decorated in Holland with a pencilled black landscape of two figures before a village church within a gilded strapwork panel, 11.6cm. (2)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no. 528. Purchased from Errol Manners, June 1996.

Illustrated: Helen Espir, European Decoration of Oriental Porcelain, p.190, pl.45.

Cf. Bonhams, The Watney Collection of Chinese Porcelain Decorated in Holland and England, 7th November 2003, lot 35 for a similar teabowl and saucer. These wares were once thought to have been decorated in China, but research by Louise Spruit in her publication 'Mededelingenblad Nederlande vereniging vn Vreinden van de Ceramiek', indicated an origin in Holland.