A CHINESE EXPORT CAFÉ-AU-LAIT GROUND BLUE AND WHITE BOWL AND A TEABOWL THE PORCELAIN, KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1700 |

each similarly decorated, the exterior enameled in white, green and dark red probably in England with a large crane with outspread wings and bold floral displays issuing from a small vase, the interior painted with foliate motifs in underglaze-blue.

Teabowl, Property from the Collection of Cora and Benjamin Ginsburg, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 2, 2003
Bowl, Peter Williams, Tallarn Green, Cheshire, November, 1992
Vogel Collection nos. 571 and 727.3

The bowl is in good overall condition with thinning glaze around the base and small nicks along the foot ring. The teabowl has three chips to the rim, the largest of these with an associated crack extending to the base and there is a firing flaw to the inner foot ring. Both with expected wear.
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Wares of this type are discussed by Errol Manners in his paper 'The English Decoration of Oriental Porcelain: some overlooked groups 1700-1750', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol. I9, Part 1, where the author illustrates three further pieces of 'Batavian ware' porcelains with London decoration, pl. 12 and 14, two bowls previously in the Bernard Watney Collection, the first featuring the same type of bird as seen on the present lot; and pl. 13 a small mug of the same form as the Dwight stoneware example in this collection (lot 609). A teabowl and beaker with this type of bird decoration are illustrated by Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain 1700-1830, London, 2005, p. 206, figs. 1-2.