Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Two Chinese porcelain English-decorated teapots and covers 1st half 18th century, one originally decorated in underglaze blue with pagodas and trees at the water's edge, later-enamelled in red and gilt with two figures fishing from a boat with birds in flight above, the pagodas and flowering branches extended, the other with original sparse floral decoration, over-enamelled with two yellow cockerels to each side, the branches extended in red and green, 19.5cm max. (4)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, nos. 435 and 863.