A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL 'JESUIT' BOWL AND COVER18th centuryDecorated to the bowl exterior with a continuous scene of European ladies and gentlemen at leisure in a tree-strewn landscape, attended by young boys dressed as putti, the cover with a river landscape scene, with European dwellings dotted amongst pine on mountainous shores, the base and top of the cover each inscribed in black enamel with an eight-character Jesuit mark.12cm (4 3/4in) diam. (2).For further information on this lot please visit theCondition Report: General rub and wear, losses to the enamels. Extensive enamel cracks to both the cover and the bowl. Areas of restoration/retouch to the rims.Provenance: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價Published: Oriental Works of Art, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., June 2002, catalogue no. 47.This rare bowl is decorated in early enamel colours, and probably dates prior to 1735, and would probably have been made for one of the Jesuit missionaries at court.pare with a bowl illustrated in 'Chinese Painted Enamel', Ashmolean Museum, 1978, , no. 20, p.24.