A Chinese Dehua porcelain Dutch-decorated ewer and cover, c.1680-1720, the decoration slightly

A Chinese Dehua porcelain Dutch-decorated ewer and cover, c.1680-1720, the decoration slightly later, painted in the Kakiemon palette with bamboo stems and other flowering branches issuing from banded hedges, beneath the spout with a poised tiger, the rim with a formal trellis and ruyi scroll design, 16.5cm high. (2)

Provenance: The Henry Lawrence Collection. Purchased Sotheby's, 11th January 1980, lot 106. Formerly in the Richard de la Mare Collection.

Illustrated: P J Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, 133b.

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE.