A rare Chinese Batavian European-decorated teabowl and saucer Kangxi 1662-1722

A rare Chinese Batavian European-decorated teabowl and saucer Kangxi 1662-1722, decorated in underglaze blue with a figure fishing beneath tall trees in an island landscape, the underside glazed brown, with later wheel-engraved decoration in Saxony or Bohemia, of birds perched on a continuous flowering branch, 11cm. (2)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no. 727. Purchased from Geoffrey Waters, July 1999.

Illustrated: Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, p.59, pl.12.

The technique of cutting and polishing the new Böttger stoneware, produced at Meissen c.1710, made such techniques desirable on other media and was used on Chinese porcelains such as these to great effect.