A blue and white silver-mounted covered mustard pot. Mid-17th century - image-1

Lot 169 Dα

A blue and white silver-mounted covered mustard pot. Mid-17th century

Auction 1166 - overview Cologne
15.12.2020, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.125 € (incl. premium)
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A blue and white silver-mounted covered mustard pot. Mid-17th century

Of baluster shape with a domed cover and a C-shaped handle, decorated in underglaze-blue with two flower sprays of blossoming peony and plum. With a Dutch silver mount attaching the domed lid with a hinge.
Height 14.5 cm

Mustard pots were made in China for the Dutch market and were based on Dutch silver, tin or faience models. They entered the European market in the middle of the 17th century first mentioned in 1653 in a letter by the governor of Formosa Hans Putmann which was adressed to the East India Company in Amsterdam.

崇禎 青花花卉帶蓋單把加銀裝小罐
來源：德國下​薩克森​州私人收藏
可比：Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen, 不倫瑞克 1980年, 頁224, 第107號 與香港東方陶瓷學會, 《Transitional wares and their forerunners》(明末清初瓷展), 香港 1981年, 頁103, 第48號

Provenance

Private collection, Lower Saxony

Literature

Comapare shape and decor in Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen (Chinese Porcelain in European Mounts), Braunschweig 1980, p. 224, no. 107 and The Oriental Society of Hong Kong, Transitional wares and their forerunners, Hong Kong 1981, p. 103, no. 48