18th Century Worcester Porcelain Fluted Bowl with Black Penciled Decoration. 

The bowl tapering to straight cylindrical foot. 

Penciled in black enamel with a Chinese man holding a parasol, a bird perched on his right hand, flanked by a fence and a tree and a flower filled vase on a table, the interior with a landscape vignette and a formal border. 

Blue underglaze pseudo Chinese square fret mark. 

Circa 1770-1772.

4 1/2" Diameter. 

Condition: Wear to enamels, interior. 

Provenance: The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain, Part I, 

Bonham's, London, March 16, 2004, lot 49 (Collection paper label no. Y219). 

Simon Spero, London, June 10, 2004. 

Robin Henry Ceramic Collection, #84.

Literature: Simon Spero and John Sandon: Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, the Zorensky Collection, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club: 1996, p. 180. See figure 150 for an early teabowl and saucer in this pattern.