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