A GILT-COPPER MOUNTED BLUE-GLAZED EWER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

well potted with a flattened pear-shaped body on a circular splayed foot, sweeping up to a slender neck and set with a long curved spout with hexagonal tip, applied overall with a rich dark blue glaze save for the recessed base left in the biscuit revealing a smooth white ware, the neck fitted with an 18th century reticulated Ottoman gilt-copper mount

For a similar ewer in the collection of the Topkapi Saray Museum, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. III, London, 1986, pl. 3224. Another example was exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, cat. no. 37.