A LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED KENDI

EARLY 17TH CENTURY, THE SILVER PROBABLY DUTCH 17TH CENTURY

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A LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED KENDI
early 17th century, the silver probably dutch 17th century
The globular body painted with two bands of prunus blossoms floating on a striated blue ground, the lower band reserved with three octagonal panels enclosing scholar's rocks and a solitary gentleman, one side with a mammiform spout covered by a silver mount, the cylindrical neck slightly flaring below the mouth rim and painted with flower sprays, minor chip and frits
9in. (23cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the Wanli blue and white kendi mounted in early 17th Century English silver as a wine-taster, exhibited Mounted Oriental Porcelain, Washington, 1986, Catalogue, no.6, where Sir Francis Watson states that the earliest recorded silver-mounted kendi bears the London hallmark for 1584.

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