THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1680, THE SILVER WITH MARK OF FREDERIK MANICUS II, AMSTERDAM, 1785

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A Japanese Arita blue and white silver-gilt-mounted tankard
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1680, THE SILVER WITH MARK OF FREDERIK MANICUS II, AMSTERDAM, 1785
Painted in the Chinese Transitional style, the globular body surmounted by a wide cylindrical neck, painted with a pairs of scholars seated in a continuous landscape strewn with fur trees and rocks, the silver-gilt cover engraved with a coat-of-arms and mounted with a shell-shaped thumb-piece
22.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

Tankards of various sizes were ordered by the Dutch East India Company from the 1680's onwards. Their shapes closely followed the mostly German stoneware models sent with the orders. The decoration was invariably in the Chinese Transitional style, however reinterpreted in the Japanese manner.

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