Exhibited: Exhibition of Chinese Art, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. no. 364.

The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1955, cat. no. 221.

Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1971, cat. no. 72, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums.

Literature: 'Hsing-Yao and Ting-Yao', The Bulletin of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 25, 1953, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 41, fig. 35.

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 286.

The World's Great Collections. Oriental Ceramics, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 52.

Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 495.

Note: Compare a slightly larger ewer illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, no. 279; and another in the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated in Margaret Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, pl. 74. See also a similar ewer included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, cat. no. 990, and sold in these rooms, 29th March 1977, lot 92. 

Ewer, white porcelain with white glaze, China, Tang dynasty (618-907), 850-906. Height: 14.7 cm, Diameter: 8.2 cm mouth. J.G. Maxwell Brownjohn Bequest, C.37-1965 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2017.