A RARE BLUE AND WHITE EWER QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD

after an early fifteenth century original and of Islamic metalware shape, the cylindrical body moulded with eight rectangular panels each painted in rich cobalt-blue tones in 'heaped and piled' effect with leafy floral sprays, the tall cylindrical neck with a lotus scroll band and divided to one side with a tall strap handle and to the other with an upright rectangular section spout pierced with an apeture of double-gourd shape, all supported on a short spreading foot with classic scroll band