The well-potted tankard of cylindrical form with slightly flaring splayed base and a loop handle, the exterior decorated in underglaze-blue with a continuous scene of a scholar and a Buddhist monk holding a fly whisk engaged in conversation, both surrounded by a rocky landscape, between two stylised borders at the foot and mouth of the tankard, the loop handle decorated with stylised clouds Size:(20cm high) Qty: (1) Provenance:Santos Collection 來源： 桑托斯收藏 Notes: Please refer to similar similar examples of tankards with blue and white decoration, one recently sold from the Marsh Collection, Bonhams, London, 3 November 2022, lot 33. Another tankard is illustrated in Chinese Blue & White Porcelain from the Pullan Collection, sale catalogue by Bluet & Son, Ltd, London, 1998, cat. 13; S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, 1988 London and Boston, p. 198, cat. 208;T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate, The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, 2021, p. 241, cat. III.2.69, for a tankard of similar form but different decoration; British Museum, London, accession no. Franks.155; T. Canepa, Jingdezhen to the world: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the late Ming Dynasty, 2019, pp. 304-307;S.T. Yeo and J. Martin, Chinese Blue and White Ceramics, Singapore 1978, p. 220, plate 131. 參見一件青花紋飾之相類啤酒杯，近期自 Marsh 收藏釋出，倫敦邦瀚斯，二〇二二年十一月三日，拍品編號三三。 另參見數例著錄：《Pullan系列中國青花瓷器》，倫敦Bluet & Son, Ltd於一九九八年出版的銷售目錄，編號一三；S. Jenyns，《明代陶瓷》，倫敦與波士頓，一九八八年，第一九八頁，編號二〇八；T. Canepa 與 K. Butler，《躍龍門──巴特勒爵士十七世紀中國瓷器收藏》，二〇二一年，第二四一頁，編號 III.2.69，錄一件造型相近而紋飾有別之例；大英博物館，館藏編號 Franks.155；T. Canepa，《走向世界的景德鎮：盧裡珍藏明末中國出口瓷器》，二〇一九年，第三〇四至三〇七頁；S.T. Yeo 與 J. Martin，《中國青花瓷》，新加坡，一九七八年，第二二〇頁，圖版一三一。