A CHINESE IMARI SILVER MOUNTED MILK JUG painted with a peasant standing on pierced rockwork on a fenced terrace below another bird in flight, the neck with ruyi-shaped panels, the spreading foot with a band of spear-heads, the domed silver cover with a coat-of-arms below a crest and the motto Recte Faciendo Neminem Timeas (base of handle chipped and cracked), the porcelain early 18th Century, the mounts 19th Century
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A CHINESE IMARI SILVER MOUNTED MILK JUG painted with a peasant standing on pierced rockwork on a fenced terrace below another bird in flight, the neck with ruyi-shaped panels, the spreading foot with a band of spear-heads, the domed silver cover with a coat-of-arms below a crest and the motto Recte Faciendo Neminem Timeas (base of handle chipped and cracked), the porcelain early 18th Century, the mounts 19th Century
26.5 cm. high
Lot Essay
The arms are Dutch, those of van Sytzama, cf. J.B.Rietstap, Wapenboek van den Nederlandschen Adel, pl.56
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