The ewer has an eight lobed body rising to a tall flaring neck, the strap handle and cover both have loops for attachment. The lobed bowl has a foliate rim and is supported on a short foot.

Provenance: The ewer: With Luen Chai Curios Store, Hong Kong, 23 August 2000.
The bowl: With Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, purchased at the International Ceramics Fair, London, 21 June 1999.

Note: The form of this ewer may be compared to the Qingbai ewer (20 cm. high), without its cover, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, C.112-1929, illustrated in Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Ed. Stacey Pierson, London, 2002, p.122, no. 62, and also to the Qingbai ewer (16.5 cm. high) in the British Museum, 1973,0726.342, also with no cover, illustrated in the same publication, p. 121, no. 61, where the author writes that the form is known from the Tang dynasty (618-907).

Qingbai ewer, China, Jingdezhen, Northern Song dynasty, 1000–1100. Height: 19.7 cm, Width: 11.7 cm, Depth: 9 cm. Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum no. C.112-1929. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Porcelain ewer decorated with 'qingbai' glaze, Song dynasty, 12th-13th century. Height: 16.5 cm. Bequeathed by Brenda Zara Seligman, Museum no. 1973,0726.342. © The Trustees of the British Museum.