A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED EWER WITH DUTCH SILVER MOUNTSChongzhen Finely potted of pear shape rising from a tall spreading foot and rising to a flaring mouth, applied with a loop handle, decorated around the exterior with a scene of two scholars engaged in conversation with a guqing and scrolls amidst a garden, attended by two boys carrying covered trays, the shoulder with floral border and the neck with sprays of stylised tulips, applied with Dutch silver hinged lid. 24.7cm (9 3/4in) high. 明崇禎 青花梨形執壺及荷蘭銀蓋 Provenance: Fa. A. C. Beeling & Zn., Hofleverancier, Leeuwarden (label) John R. Berwald Oriental Ceramics & Works of Art, London, July 1995 來源： 荷蘭呂伐登御用供應商 Fa. A. C. Beeling & Zn.（標簽） 倫敦古董商 John R. Berwald Oriental Ceramics & Works of Art，1995年7月 pare with a related silver-mounted blue and white mustard pot, Shunzhi, from the Butler Family collection, illustrated in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment , Shanghai, 2005, pp.320-321, no.120.