The pear-shaped body raised on a splayed foot and set with a looping strap handle, painted around the exterior with a continuous figural scene depicting two scholars seated in a woodland clearing as attendants bring them offerings, with bands of flowerheads and leafy sprays Size:(22cm high) Qty: (1) Provenance:A.C. Beeling & Zn, Hofleverancier (Seller to the Dutch Royal House), Leeuwarden [paper label] John R. Berwald Oriental Ceramics & Works of Art, London, July 1995; The Marsh Collection; Bonhams New Bond Street, The Marsh Collection, Art for the Literati, 3 November 2022, lot 32 來源： 荷蘭皇家御用供應商A.C. Beeling & Zn，呂伐登，[標籤] 1995年7月購自倫敦John R. Berwald東方陶瓷與藝術品公司 墨一閒收藏 倫敦邦瀚斯，2022年11月3日 Notes: See a related blue and white jug sold at Rob Michiels Auction, 8th - 9th December 2018, lot 495 [link]. Compare 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.