This uncommon form has a brown glaze, sometimes referred to as a Batavian or capucine ground, on the exterior and is decorated with a floral meander in underglaze blue in the interior.

The cold decoration is executed in red, black and gold with Chinese figures on pedestals within ornamental baroque borders. The Chinese figures loosely derive from the type of images of China popularised by Johan Nieuhof and Elias Baeck which were published in Augsburg and Amsterdam. The formal baroque strapwork suggests that this was painted in Germany.

Condition:
handle broken in two pieces and restuck. Section of footrim restored.

Provenance:

Anthony du Boulay Collection

Paolo Lukacs, Rome

Literature:

Manners 2024
‘E & H Manners, ‘Decorators on Ceramics and Glass’, 2024, no. 1

Price: £1,800