Boldly painted with a spray of chrysanthemums and a grasshopper. For a Japanese Kakiemon bowl from the Richard de la Mare collection with a similar pierced border see Jenyns (1965), pl. 72A.

The Japanese potters took the shape from Chinese famille-verte porcelain bowls. The form is very rare in Chantilly porcelain, a splendid example with figures in a boat is in the Musée Ariana, Geneva.

Louis-Henri, duc de Bourbon, the prince de Condé, the owner of the Chantilly factory, inherited and added to a great collection of porcelain from Japan and Meissen which were used as models for his own factory.

The strong primary colours and brilliant white of the opaque tin glaze suggest an early date from around 1735 when he was granted Letters Patent authorising him to make ‘porcelain fine de toutes couleurs, espèces, façons et grandeurs à l’imitation de la porcelain de Japon’ for a period of twenty years.

Condition:
Perfect

Provenance:
Henry Lawrence collection
On loan at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, England from 2002-2023

References:

Jenyns 1965
Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, (Faber & Faber, London 1965)

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