A Bow teabowl and five coffee cups, circa 1750-70 Painted in blue, the finely potted teabowl with banana trees, pine and a fence, an early coffee cup with a Chinese landscape including a pagoda, hut and 'pylon' trees, incised line and painter's mark 'H'(?), the second cup decorated with cranes frolicking by large holed rockwork, bamboo and peony, the third cup with fan-shaped panels featuring river scenes and floral sprigs reserved on a powder blue ground, crossed swords mark, the fourth cup with wavy-edged panels with repeating floral motifs, a panelled diaper border to the interior rim, 6cm high, and the fifth cup with the handle unusually pointed at the lower terminal, painted in a version of the 'Mansfield' pattern, 3.5-6.4cm high (6) Footnotes: Provenance Watney Collection, Phillips, 1 November 2000, lot 844 (third, fourth and fifth mentioned cups) Bonhams, 5 December 2007, lot 169 (teabowl and first-mentioned cup) Anton Gabszewicz Collection The early coffee cup is painted in a vibrant blue, with the same abstract clouds and basic pattern as some of the earliest pieces of Bow blue and white, including the dated inkwell referred to in the footnote to lot 97 in this sale. The 'Mansfield' cup is copied from Worcester, see Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.74, no.102 for a jug in the Geoffrey Freeman Collection in this pattern. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing