A CHINESE TEA BOWL AND SAUCER

Jingdezhen, the Dutch decoration circa 1720-25, perhaps by Gerrit van der Kaade, after Adriaen Colliert, and painted in the Kakiemon style, with two parrots in turquoise, red and yellow enamels, highlighted in gilt, the birds perched on a budding rose tree within a scalloped brown rim

Provenance: Bt. Phillips, 11th December 1991 lot 168.

Literature: Helen Espir op.cif.fig.44 for the print, 45 for a dish.