Lot 170. A small Chinese blue and white small ewer and cover, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Est: £150–300. Sold for £300. Photo Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions

the slender ovoid body with moulded Shou character, 16cm high; knop on cover missing, further chips to cover rim and the underside of cover and some glaze fritting throughout

Provenance: English Family Collection before 1950.

Compare with a small ewer and cover of similar shape illustrated in, Christian J. A. Jorg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum , p. 111, No. 109.

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions. Chinese Ceramics and Asian Works of Art, Tuesday 17 May 2016