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    Sale 2184

    Chinese and Japanese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art

    Amsterdam

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    4 November 1992

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    Lot 21

    A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED EWER AND A COVER with a globular body, flanged spreading base, tall cylindrical neck, tall braced spout and bracket handle, painted with figures holding banners and on the reverse with a seated corpulant man and female attendant, silver mounted (strut cracked, spout restuck), mid 17th Century

    Price realised

    NLG 1,610

    Estimate

    NLG 1,500 - NLG 2,000

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    A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-MOUNTED EWER AND A COVER with a globular body, flanged spreading base, tall cylindrical neck, tall braced spout and bracket handle, painted with figures holding banners and on the reverse with a seated corpulant man and female attendant, silver mounted (strut cracked, spout restuck), mid 17th Century
    22.2cm. high

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    Lot Essay

    An almost similar example is illustrated by Stephen Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683, p. 11, fig. 12.

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