A BLUE AND WHITE TANKARD Chongzhen The cylindrical vessel of tapering form, boldly painted around the exterior in vibrant tones of cobalt-blue with a continuous scene of a scholar holding a sprig followed by an attendant, all within a lakeside landscape with craggy rocks and willow tree, between foliate borders at the foot and mouth, applied with a loop handle decorated with foliate scroll. 20cm (7 7/8in) high. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 明崇禎 青花人物故事圖把杯 Provenance: acquired from Jan van Beers, London, in 1994 An English private collection Published and Illustrated： M.White, Drinking at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Whites' House collection, vol.2, n.p, 2021, pp.24-25 來源：獲得于Jan van Beers，于1994年 英國私人收藏 著錄：M.White，《Drinking at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Whites' House collection》，第2冊，無出版地，2021年，第24-25頁 The Dutch sent stoneware tankards to Jingdezhen from Cologne in Germany in 1635 to serve as models for these Dutch market tankards, of which there are extant examples. See a similar blue and white tankard decorated with a scholar, Chongzhen, illustrated in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, Shanghai, 2005, pp.322-323, no.121. See also a related blue and white tankard, 1635-1645, but decorated with a foreigner, illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.1, London, 2016, p.124, no.238. Compare with a related blue and white tankard, Chongzhen, which was sold at Bonhams London, The Marsh Collection: Art for the Literati, 3 November 2022, lot 33. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing