A BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED EUROPEAN-SUBJECT COFFEE-POT AND SHALLOW DOMED COVER of tapering octagonal form based on a European silver original, standing on three ball-feet, with loop handle and straight spout with scroll stretcher, the body painted with figures on horseback and others scantily dressed in a riverscape with trees and buildings below ornate lappets and medallions depicting Europa and the bull on the upper sections, the cover with Buddhistic lion finial (spout and feet restored, cover chipped), early 18th Century | Christie's

Lot 156

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A BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED EUROPEAN-SUBJECT COFFEE-POT AND SHALLOW DOMED COVER of tapering octagonal form based on a European silver original, standing on three ball-feet, with loop handle and straight spout with scroll stretcher, the body painted with figures on horseback and others scantily dressed in a riverscape with trees and buildings below ornate lappets and medallions depicting Europa and the bull on the upper sections, the cover with Buddhistic lion finial (spout and feet restored, cover chipped), early 18th Century

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A BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED EUROPEAN-SUBJECT COFFEE-POT AND SHALLOW DOMED COVER of tapering octagonal form based on a European silver original, standing on three ball-feet, with loop handle and straight spout with scroll stretcher, the body painted with figures on horseback and others scantily dressed in a riverscape with trees and buildings below ornate lappets and medallions depicting Europa and the bull on the upper sections, the cover with Buddhistic lion finial (spout and feet restored, cover chipped), early 18th Century
29.5cm. high

Lot Essay

An example in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by J. McClure Mudge, op. cit., p102, pl.155; other examples are in the Groninger Museum, illustrated by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op. cit., pl. 128, and in the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam.

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