A DUTCH DELFT DORÉ OVAL BUTTER-TUB AND COVER with shell and scroll-moulded handles, painted predominantly in iron-red, enriched in green and gilding with an Oriental in a sampan among river-islands beside a building, within lobed gilt line borders and with flowering plants within circular medallions on an iron-red ground with hatched leaves and half-flowerheads, the cover similarly decorated and with foliage-moulded finial (minute chip to rim of cover, slight glaze flaking to handles), iron-red 2 to cover, circa 1720