A reticulated Chinese export chestnut bowl and cover, Qianlong

H.: 17,5 cm – Dia.: 21 cm

See also: Howard & Ayers, China for the West, Volume two, no. 585, p. 565, where the author notes ‘One of the most graceful shapes of functional export porcelain, but seldom displaying in decoration the standard found in its potting. Other armorial bowls of this shape are at Ickworth, in Suffolk, with an elaborately painted pink-scale pattern and a swirling design of gilt leaves and flowers at the base, displaying inside the arms of Lord Harvey after his marriage in 1779. No exact origin for the shape has been identified, but its inspiration is undoubtedly the delicate pierced creamware made in such quantity in Leeds and elsewhere in England in the last quarter of eighteenth century.’

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cover with an old repair of the knob with related overpainting, the repair is presumly larger than needed. Two small superficial baking flaws in the openworked area, invisible on the inside.
- The bowl generally in very good condition, with a superficial baking flaws in the openworked area, invisible on the inside and a baking flaw on the rim.