AN ARITA BLUE AND WHITE COFFEE URN with elaborate engraved Dutch silver mounts, the urn decorated with a ho-o bird on rockwork and another hovering above among chrysanthemums and peonies, the loop handle with scrolling karakusa, the cover with pear-shaped finial, late 17th/early 18th century, the mounts 18th century

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AN ARITA BLUE AND WHITE COFFEE URN with elaborate engraved Dutch silver mounts, the urn decorated with a ho-o bird on rockwork and another hovering above among chrysanthemums and peonies, the loop handle with scrolling karakusa, the cover with pear-shaped finial, late 17th/early 18th century, the mounts 18th century
33cm. high

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For a tankard with similar engraved mounts see Scheurleer Lunsingh Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europaischen Fassungen, Wurzburg 1980, pl. 519

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