An Arita blue and white silver-mounted tankard,

FOURTH QUARTER 17TH CENTURY, SILVER MIDDELBURG 1663

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An Arita blue and white silver-mounted tankard,
Fourth quarter 17th Century, silver Middelburg 1663
The pear-shaped body decorated with three tapering panels, the central panel shows a man dressed in a long robe, holding an umbrella in his left and a fan in his right hand, an assistant to his left in a mountainous landscape with several houses, plants, trees and a rabbit, the two other panels depicting birds in flight and perched on branches, the borders and the loop handle with karakusa scrolls, the silver lid with an engraved acollé coat-of-arms within feathery mantling, surmounted by a helmet and a rampant lion, the thumb piece executed as a winged creature flanked by a cornucopia to its right and probably a dolphin to its left, the mounting on the handle shaped as an engraved leaf with an embossed lizzard
27.4cm. high (including the thumb piece)

Lot Essay

The maker's mark is probably a falcon, which is unidentified, see De Bree, Zeeuws zilver, Schiedam 1978, nr. 635. The year mark X should correspond to 1663.
See Daendels, Japans blauw en wit porselein, in Mededelingenblad VvVvdC 101/102, 1981 p.71-72 ill. 105,107 and 108 for similar silver-mounted examples; Ford and Impey, Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1989, p. 72 ill. 40a and Lunsingh Scheurleer, op. cit, plate XIV

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