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16 3/4 in., 42.7 cm.

the ovoid body with tall waisted neck, encircled by thick ribs around the neck and shoulder set with two loop handles and a chicken-head forming the spout, opposite an arching handle terminating in a dragon-head with jaws clenched around the rim, applied overall in a pale green glaze finely suffused with crackles, pooling in the deep recesses around the ribs to a darker olive tone, stopping short of the base to reveal the buff-white ware

The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd., no.C100x81.

NOTE

A similar ewer excavated at Jingpingshan, Lianyungang, Jiangsu province in 1958 and now in the collection of the Nanjing Museum, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 5, Shanghai, 2000, no. 1. Further related examples include one in the China History Museum, Beijing, and one in the Yangzhou Museum, illustrated ibid., nos. 7 and 33, respectively; and another illustrated in Chinese Ceramics, Han-Tang Dynasty, Taipei, 1987, p. 486.

Compare also an ewer of similar form and size sold in our London rooms, 15th December 1981, lot 121.