The Helen Espir Collection - 12 Nov 2014

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Two Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated bowls c.1720-40

£500 - £700

Two Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated bowls c.1720-40, both originally with a wide band of floral anhua decoration between narrow hatched or cash diaper borders in underglaze blue, over-enamelled in the Kakiemon palette, one with a tiger between birds perched on pine and prunus branches issuing from banded hedges, the other with three panels, each containing a bird perched next to a pagoda type building, on a hatched and flower mon ground, a Chinese leaf-shaped spoon tray and a teapot bearing the same decoration as the first bowl, 15.5cm max. (4)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, nos. 519, 674, 520 and 521. The pieces with the Tiger and Banded Hedge decoration formerly in the collection at Hadspen House, Somerset.

The copying of true Japanese Kakiemon designs onto Chinese porcelain is a perfect illustration of the lack of distinction between the two countries to the 18th century European decorator. The over-decoration on these pieces is likely to date from c.1730, with the same or similar patterns emerging on French and English porcelains from the 1740s.

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