A large Dutch Delft blue and white vase, late seventeenth century

of inverted baluster form, painted in manganese and blue with a procession of figures and mythical Chinese animals through a Transitional-style mountainous landscape, within elaborate floral and masked lappet borders

Paper label of E. Allain, 66 Rue la Boetie, Paris

British Museum London, Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy, The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist, 2002, exhibition catalogue, no. 251

Tim Clarke, The Rhinocerous, from Dürer to Stubbs, 1515-1799, 1986, pp. 96, 99, col. pl. xvi

Typical very minor flaking of glaze especially at rims, but overall very good. Presumably lacking cover.
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Though unsigned, this fine pot is likely to have been made either at the 'Greek A' factory under Samuel van Eenhoorn, or at the 'Moor's Head' under Rochus Hoppesteyn; for comparable wares, see H-P Fourest, Delftware, 1980, no. 29 (Eenhoorn) and 36-37 (Hoppesteyn).

Another vase with many similar painting characteristics, unsigned but dated 1678, is illustrated by M. S. van Aken-Fehmers et.al., Delfts aardewerk, Den Haag 1999, no. 82.