A fine Bow cream jug with plain loop handle, circa 1753-55
Finely painted in soft colours with a Chinese garden scene, a figure holding out a vase of flowers to a small boy, a rake and basket to the foreground. The reverse painted with a willow tree growing from blue and yellow rocks, a figure in a sampan below the spout and flying insects above.
Height: 7.8 cm
Marks: Painter’s mark E in red enamel
Condition: Very good
Provenance: Formerly in the Elizabeth Adams Collection
Illustrated by Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain, 1981, col.pl.E