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Source Description
This tankard is one of a pair in the Walters collection made for export to Europe, specifically to Holland through the East India Trading Company. The white body has slightly bowed sides and a handle, which are painted with underglaze cobalt blue decorations. A river landscape includes a grazing horse attended by a man beneath a willow tree. Scrolling clouds surround the base and the upper rim is decorated with a band of chrysanthemum. A silver lid engraved with a crest was mounted to the porcelain once it arrived in Europe.
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Document identity
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32041
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Tankard with Dutch Silver Lid
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32041
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title
Tankard with Dutch Silver Lid
description
This tankard is one of a pair in the Walters collection made for export to Europe, specifically to Holland through the East India Trading Company. The white body has slightly bowed sides and a handle, which are painted with underglaze cobalt blue decorations. A river landscape includes a grazing horse attended by a man beneath a willow tree. Scrolling clouds surround the base and the upper rim is decorated with a band of chrysanthemum. A silver lid engraved with a crest was mounted to the porcelain once it arrived in Europe.
provenance
William T. or Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore, prior to 1896 [mode of acquisition unknown]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1630-1650
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CC0
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en
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Ceramics
tankards
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1
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import
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H: 8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm)
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Chinese
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Ming -Qing Dynasty
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porcelain with underglaze blue and Dutch silver lid
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6238
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2514
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