A Transitional blue and white silver-mounted ewer
Mid 17th Century, the silver 1857, maker's mark indistinct, the Netherlands
The pear-shaped body painted with a garden scene depicting a young servant carrying a wrapped qin towards scholars at leisure, below stylised foliage and tulip stems, with silver rim and cover with shell-shaped thumb-piece, glaze frit
22 cm. high
A Transitional blue and white silver-mounted ewer
Mid 17th Century, the silver 1857, maker's mark indistinct, the Netherlands
The pear-shaped body painted with a garden scene depicting a young servant carrying a wrapped qin towards scholars at leisure, below stylised foliage and tulip stems, with silver rim and cover with shell-shaped thumb-piece, glaze frit
22 cm. high
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