The Helen Espir Collection - 12th November 2014
Lot 418
A Chinese porcelain English-decorated teapot and cover 1st half 18th century
Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £850
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Description
A Chinese porcelain English-decorated teapot and cover 1st half 18th century, with original underglaze blue decoration of a pagoda in a mountain landscape, over-enamelled with black and gilt stippled vine leaves and puce grapes, a Chinese teabowl with the same later decoration, and a similarly-decorated Chinese milk jug moulded after a Staffordshire salt-glazed original, 18cm max. (4)
Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, nos. 603, 933 and 848. The jug previously in the Michael Gillingham Collection, before that in the Trapnell Collection, thought to be Bristol porcelain.
Illustrated: Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, p.227, pl.29.
This particular design is known on Bow porcelain of the early 1750s, which suggests a decorator at a London atelier. The jug is an interesting example of the journey of influences across Europe and Asia and back again.