A large Arita blue and white silver-mounted tankard

LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE SILVER AMSTERDAM 1732, MAKER'S MARK JAN WILLEM VASTENOUW

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A large Arita blue and white silver-mounted tankard
Late 17th Century, the silver Amsterdam 1732, maker's mark Jan Willem Vastenouw
The pear-shaped body decorated with three vertical lappet panels, the central one depicting two men standing barefoot under a parasol in a pine landscape, between two slightly different panels enclosing various geese and ducks among trees, all reserved on a karakusa scrollwork ground, repeated on the band encircling the rim and loop handle, the silver lid engraved with a small central floret within a chain-pattern band, cornucopia thumb-piece, beaded and pendent leaf-pattern border and spout (restoration to the handle)
27 cm. high

Lot Essay

D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und Japanisches Porzellan in Europaischen Fassungen, Verlag Kilnhardt & Biermann, 1980, pl. XIV & XV; Ford and Impey, Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989, p. 72, ill. 40a.
Tankards of various sizes were ordered by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from the 1660's onwards. Their shapes closely followed the mostly German stoneware models sent with the orders. The decoration was invariably in Chinese Transitional style, however reworked in the Japanese manner.

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