Of tall baluster form, the rounded shoulders rising to a waisted neck with flared rim, finely decorated in vivid shades of underglaze blue, decorated with a central band depicting a hunting scene; a huntsmen and soldiers engaged in a pursuit of animals and birds, set above the lower register painted with sea creatures riding on crashing waves, the neck decorated with stylised plantain leaves, the cover similarly decorated with soldiers.
Provenance
Guilherme Augusto Machado Pereira, 1st viscount of Pereira Machado (1822-1868), Porto.
By descent to his granddaughter, D. Margarida Rosa Pereira Machado de Castro
(1886-1977), who married Dom João de Castro Pamplona, 8th Count of Resende, 29th hereditary Admiral of Portugal, Count of Carvalhal and Viscount of Beire (1882-1924).
