Description 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. 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.
Dimensions Height 14.5 cm
Literature Comapare shape and decor in Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europ?ischen 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
Provenance Private collection, Lower Saxony
Notes VAT: Margin scheme