A BLUE AND WHITE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT TAPERING OCTAGONAL COFFEE-POT AND SHALLOW DOMED COVER based on a European silver original, standing on three ball feet, with loop handle and straight spout with scroll stretcher, painted on the body with figures on horseback and others semi-naked in a river landscape with trees and buildings below ornate lappets and medallions depicting Europa and the bull on the upper section, the cover with Buddhistic lion finial (hairline crack, small rim restorations), early 18th Century

A BLUE AND WHITE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT TAPERING OCTAGONAL COFFEE-POT AND SHALLOW DOMED COVER based on a European silver original, standing on three ball feet, with loop handle and straight spout with scroll stretcher, painted on the body with figures on horseback and others semi-naked in a river landscape with trees and buildings below ornate lappets and medallions depicting Europa and the bull on the upper section, the cover with Buddhistic lion finial (hairline crack, small rim restorations), early 18th Century

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An example in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by J. Mc Clure Mudge, op.cit., p. 102, pl. 155; other examples are in the Groninger Museum, illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit., pl. 128, and in the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam.

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