A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED EWER AND A COVER with a globular body, flanged spreading base, tall cylindrical neck, tall braced spout and bracket handle, painted with figures holding banners and on the reverse with a seated corpulant man and female attendant, silver mounted (strut cracked, spout restuck), mid 17th Century | Christie's

Lot 21

A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED EWER AND A COVER with a globular body, flanged spreading base, tall cylindrical neck, tall braced spout and bracket handle, painted with figures holding banners and on the reverse with a seated corpulant man and female attendant, silver mounted (strut cracked, spout restuck), mid 17th Century

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A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED EWER AND A COVER with a globular body, flanged spreading base, tall cylindrical neck, tall braced spout and bracket handle, painted with figures holding banners and on the reverse with a seated corpulant man and female attendant, silver mounted (strut cracked, spout restuck), mid 17th Century
22.2cm. high

Lot Essay

An almost similar example is illustrated by Stephen Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683, p. 11, fig. 12.

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