
A Polychrome Arita Tankard
Attractively decorated with flowering prunus and peony growing from rockwork
With Dutch silver mounts
The cover amusingly using the centre of a Chinese 17thC blue and white dish depicting an elephant
The tankard 1670-1690s
Hizen, Arita kilns
Height: 8″ (20.4 cm)
Condition: rim edge ground to accommodate the silver mounts
Some glaze flakes to rim and body
Provenance: Anthony Du Boulay, purchased from Lady Crichett, bought in November 1982
A similar tankard without the mounts from the Usui Collection is illustrated in
Jiki, Porcellana Giapponese tra Oriente e Occidente 1610-1760. No. 79