Blue-and-white tankard with European silver mounts, Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen Period (1628 - 1644); tankard 1635 - 1644, mount c. 1800; Jingdezhen kilns, porcelain, thrown, with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue; handle luted to the tankard with slip; silver mounts, 25.2 cm (height), with handle 13.5 cm (width), 9.7 cm (diameter). Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978. EA1978.803 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Bibliography: Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 47 on p. 33, illus. p. 33