An archaistic gold and silver-inlaid bronze ewer (He), Ming dynasty

For the prototype, see an ewer attributed to the Waring States period, in the Sumitomo Collection, illustrated in Sen-Oku Sei-Sho / The Collection of Old Bronzes of Sumitomo, Kyoto, 1971, pl. LVII. Compare a larger ewer from the collection of Marilyn Ackerman, sold at Christie’s New York, 19th March 2019, lot 813; and another with cover, sold at Christie’s Paris, 13th June 2018, lot 188.