One vessel is in the shape of a pomegranate and covered allover in a milky-turquoise glaze highlighted with purple splashes. The other has a compressed body covered on the exterior with a purple glaze with a turquoise splash on the body and with turquoise glaze on the interior and foot. Pomegranate-form water pot 3 in. (7.7 cm.) high, compressed water pot 1 ¾ in. (4.4 cm.) high

Provenance: Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1926.

ExhibitedThe pomegranate-form water pot: Japan Society, at the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries: Descriptive Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Selected Examples, New York, 2-21 March 1914, p. 65, no. 201.

Christie's. Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza