A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN EWER WITH CONTINENTAL SILVER-GILT MOUNT, MID 17TH CENTURY

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN EWER WITH CONTINENTAL SILVER-GILT MOUNT

MID 17TH CENTURY

of pear shape painted in underglaze blue with a sage instructing a scholar, on the other side with an youth offering a scroll to a sage, surrounded by flowering plants, with domed silver-gilt cover, with twin antler thumbpiece, the handle mount shaped and engraved as a leaf

maker’s markonly HG above A

height 7 3/4 in.

20 cm