Coffee urn, Large tap jug made of partly black enamelled and partly (fire) gilt suassa, consisting of various parts soldered together. The jug has a convex belly, black-enamelled, with carved decorations (along the top edge, band across the middle of the belly and three patterns with flowers and leaves), furthermore three cartouches with similar representations of trees, branches with leaves and flowers, birds, pagodas and people in a boat. Three legs are soldered to the underside of the jug as stylized heads of monsters with trunk-like legs protruding from their mouths, curling out. Each leg
Coffee urn, Large tap jug made of partly black enamelled and partly (fire) gilt suassa, consisting of various parts soldered together. The jug has a convex belly, black-enamelled, with carved decorations (along the top edge, band across the middle of the belly and three patterns with flowers and leaves), furthermore three cartouches with similar representations of trees, branches with leaves and flowers, birds, pagodas and people in a boat. Three legs are soldered to the underside of the jug as stylized heads of monsters with trunk-like legs protruding from their mouths, curling out. Each leg sits exactly between two cartouches on the belly. In the middle of each cartouche is a tap soldered from gold-plated suassa. This includes a tap in the form of dolphins. A straight tubular neck of gold-plated suassa is attached to the round belly, slightly tapered. Along the top edge, notched decorations are arranged in horizontal bands. Two smooth, round ears are attached to the neck, which at the top end like stylized branches in two with oak leaves attached. There are also two elongated cartouches on both sides of the neck with a brace-shaped frame. Inside, relief embellished with trees, branches, flowers, pagodas and animals. The lid is black enamelled suassa with carved decorations of leaves and flowers, made up of two corrugated parts and a separate round button on top with small decorations in relief., Vietnam, Kanton, Dutch East India Company, anonymous, Tonkin, 1700 - 1800, founding, h cm d cm d 6 cm l cm h 6 cm × d cm w 2171 cm
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