
A Bow bowl, a mug and a small dish, circa 1750-56 Painted in famille rose palette, the bowl with a lobed rim, painted with peony and rockwork, a cell-pattern lappet border in brown with pink flowers below the interior rim, 14.5cm diam, painter's mark 'B' in red, the cylindrical mug with a gently spreading foot and grooved loop handle, a similar lappet border with yellow strapwork to the exterior rim above flowering peony bushes, 9.1cm high, incised line mark, painter's mark 'H', the small octagonal dish, thickly potted and finely decorated with a flowering peony branch, and a floral band to the flat rim inside a red line border, 16.2cm wide (3) Footnotes: Provenance Anton Gabszewicz Collection A similar mug is illustrated in Gabszewicz & Freeman, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.29, fig.14. A baluster mug with the same decoration is illustrated in Anton Gabszewicz, Made at New Canton (2000), p.53, fig.38 and the decoration discussed in Anton Gabszewicz, 'Bow Porcelain: The Incised 'R' Marked Group and Associated Wares', ECC Trans, Vol.17, Pt.2 (2000), p.286, fig.42. It features a similar 'B' applied in red enamel to that on the bowl in the present lot, suggesting that the decoration may have been applied by the same hand. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing




























