A rare Bow bowl, a vase and a basket, circa 1756-75 The bowl attributed to James Welsh, of Chinese rice bowl shape, painted in colours with a bouquet of flowers, including a pink rose and forget-me-nots, a winged insect and sprigs of flowers including heartsease to the reverse, the inner rim with evenly spaced gold flowerheads linked by red leaves, 10.1cm diam, the vase of plain pear shape, painted with a floral spray and scattered sprigs of brightly coloured flowers, brown line rim, 13.6cm high, the oval basket with pierced sides and twig handles applied with flowers, painted with a large flower spray and scattered floral sprigs, 18.5cm wide, anchor and dagger mark in red (3) Footnotes: Provenance With Simon Spero (vase) With Mercury Antiques (basket) Judy and Phelps Bell Collection Literature Tony Stevenson, Some Bow Inkstands, ECC Trans, Vol.14, Pt.3 (1992), p.278, figs.16-17 (bowl) Tony Stevenson, 'James Welsh: A Bow Porcelain Painter Revealed', Apollo (January 1993), p.14, fig.9. (bowl) A coffee cup decorated by James Welsh and possibly from the same service as the bowl in this lot is illustrated by Stevenson (1992), p.278, figs.14-15, who notes that as well as roses, viola tricolour or heartsease are often found on Welsh's work. Many examples illustrated are also painted with very similar small winged insects. For another bottle vase with closely related decoration in the Geoffrey Freeman Collection, see Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.93, no.137. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing