The Helen Espir Collection - 12th November 2014
Lot 394
A Chinese porcelain German-decorated teabowl Kangxi 1662-1722
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £3000
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Description
A Chinese porcelain German-decorated teabowl Kangxi 1662-1722, originally left in the white with an underglaze blue mark of a conch shell, later-enamelled en grisaille with a continuous harbour scene of boats and buildings amongst a winding river, 7.5cm dia.
Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no. 607. Purchased from E & H Manners, June 1997.
The fineness of the decoration on the teabowl indicates it was decorated by a senior hausmaler, perhaps Ignaz Preissler or Johann Ludwig Faber.