The flattened beehive-shaped vessel is applied with a short elaborate phoenix-head spout and small strap handle, and the sides are moulded with lotus flowers and peach blossom on a raised dot ground. The cover is modelled in the form of a flower head and has a small loop attachment. The ewer is covered in a pale ice-blue glaze stopping short at the foot and slightly recessed base.
4 in. (10 cm.) high

With Ben Janssens Oriental Art. London, 15 May 2015.

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It is unusual to find this raised dot ground decoration on Qingbai ceramics. The present lot may be compared with the qingbai water dropper and cover of similar form, size and raised dot decoration illustrated by Simon Kwan in Song Ceramics, The Mu Wen Tang Collection Series VOL II, Hong Kong, 2012, p 304.
Two related qingbai water droppers with this form and raised dot decoration excavated from the Hutian kiln site in Jingdezhen are illustrated by Jinangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Jingdezhen Museum of Civilian Kiln, Hutian Kiln Site in Jingdezhen - Report on excavations from 1988 to 1999-II, Cultural Relics Press, Beijing, 2007, colour plate. 136-3&5.
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