The boat's form a hybrid of Chinese and European models with three sails, two cabins and incised and applied details throughout, including a pair of eyes to the bow and delicate openwork to the windows, the whole painted in green, yellow and aubergine and modeled atop a wavy sea border
11¹⁄₂ in. (29.2 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 November 1999, lot 925.
With Vanderven & Vanderven, Holland.

M. Cohen and W. Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, p. 60, cat. no. 1.7.

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