D2511. Blue and White Chinoiserie Deep Bowl

Delft, circa 1670
Painted around the exterior with two pairs of Chinese men seated before shrubbery and rocks, and in one vignette a fence post and a jardinière, in a continuous landscape, the interior with a large leaf device painted within a central roundel of two concentric lines repeated below the rim edge and around the footrim on the exterior.

DIMENSIONS
Height: 11.2 cm. (4.4 in.);
Diameter: 20.9 cm. (8.2 in.)

PROVENANCE
Dutch Private Collection, Leeuwarden

SIMILAR EXAMPLES
A similar early bowl, from 1671, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (inv. no. C.2472-1928).