A FINE KAKIEMON EWER OF HEXAGONAL SHAPE, mounted with a silver cover inset with a quarter thaler of Friedrich Ulrich of Brunswick-Luneburg of 1625, the ewer decorated in iron-red, green and blue enamels with sprays of peonies and cherry blossoms, slight old damage, late 17th Century

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A FINE KAKIEMON EWER OF HEXAGONAL SHAPE, mounted with a silver cover inset with a quarter thaler of Friedrich Ulrich of Brunswick-Luneburg of 1625, the ewer decorated in iron-red, green and blue enamels with sprays of peonies and cherry blossoms, slight old damage, late 17th Century
13.8cm. high

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A similar jug with a silver mount is in the Winkworth Collection, illustrated in Soame Jenyns, "Japanese Porcelain", plate 58B ii.
There were two lines to the rulers of Brunswick (Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Brunswick-Lüneburg). These later merged under the title of the Electors of Hanover, from whom the Georgian Kings of England were descended. George I of England also carried the title Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg.

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