A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE TANKARD

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE TANKARD
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD C.1640

Painted with an official and an attendant within a fenced garden beneath a willow tree, standing amongst rockwork and shrubs, with swirling clouds to the reverse, set with a hinged 18th century European silver-gilt mount, a faint maker's mark to the rim, 20.7cm.

From an English private collection, Dorset.

Cf. M Butler and Q Wang, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections, pp. 322-323 no.121 for a related example, see also Bonhams Paris, December 2024, lot 238 for another tankard with a similar cover and mounts.

明末清初 青花高士圖紋杯
來源：英國多切斯特郡私人收藏。