A DUTCH DELFT 'BLEU PERSAN' SILVERMOUNTED BALUSTER JUG, after Nevers faïence examples, the dark-blue ground painted with a 'fixed white' decoration of floral bouquets and a bird, the loop handle mounted with double-scrolled thumbpiece connected to the stepped cover inserted with a large Dutch coin embossed with a knight in armour on horseback above the crowned coat-of-arms of Holland, inscribed in latin FOE: BELG. PRO. HOL and MO. NO. ARG. CON, the inside with CRES. CUNT. CONCORDIAE RES PARVAE, surrounding the crowned coat-of-arms of the United Dutch Provinces, dated 1760, marked for de Pauw, the jug circa 1700, the mounts circa 1760