Lot 188

A Chinese porcelain bowl with Dutch clobbered decoration depicting to the one side a male figure offering a female figure a plate of fruit with a dog between them, symbolising an erotic gesture, the other side the female holds a bird cage in one hand and a bird in the other in front of the male figure, symbolising loss of virginity or a woman's liberation from societal constraints; together with a pair of Dutch clobbered porcelain bowls with a figure in a fenced garden, China, 18th century -Large bowl: 7,5 cm, D. 15 cm, hairline crack and chips to the foot rim-