Chinese Porcelain Blue And White Tall Cylindrical Tankard, Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen Period (1636-1644). Photo Gibson Antiques.

Made for the Dutch market, of cylindrical tapering form with applied handle, finely painted in underglaze-blue with a rider on horseback chasing a hare in a mountainous landscape, within geometric and leaf-shaped bands. Height 21cm. Price on request

Provenance: Invercauld Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

The Dutch sent German stoneware tankards to Jingdezhen from Cologne in 1635 to serve as models for these tankards. A similar fine example may be found in The Butler Family Collection, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections, Shanghai 2005, cat no. 121, p.323.

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