The ewer has a pear-shaped body decorated in iron red, green, turquoise and black with two large tear drop-shaped panels reserved on the iron-red diaper ground, and with two peony sprig-filled quatrefoil panels, one positioned beneath the S-shaped strut that attaches the elongated spout to the waisted neck, the other below the slender, arched handle on the opposite side. The cover is similarly decorated with an animal-form finial, two Japanese wood boxes.

Provenance: Private collection, Kanezawa, Japan, acquired in the 1960s.