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Japan
Circa   1680 to Circa   1700

With contemporary Dutch silver mounts, dated 1709, of slender mallet form, applied with a strap handle and swelling mouth and triangular lip, painted in underglaze blue with three lobed panels containing figures in landscapes reserved against a karakusa lotus ground. 

Provenance
Walter, Liedtke Collection.  A Mellon Fellow, Curator of Dutch and Flemish Paintings, European Paintings department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Literature
A similar Arita blue and white silver mounted ewer is illustrated by Oliver Impey, Japanese export porcelain, Catalogue of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Hotei publishing, Amsterdam, 2002, p.54. cat. no. 33.  Another jug in the Utrecht Central Museum, illustrated by Lunsingh Scheurlleer, Chinesisches und Japanisches Porzellan in Europaischen Fassungen, Braunschweig, 1980, p.379, pl. 393. where the author records that the mounts are by the Utrecht silversmith, Jan Smout, dated 1681. 

Stock Code   1574

Dimensions   25.00cm high





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