唐 長沙窰綠釉帶蓋執壺

of tapering ovoid form, flanked on one side with a short spout and a long, flat rectangular handle on another, the dome-shaped cover mounted with a bud-form finial and a loop on the side, covered overall in an olive-green glaze, the foot ring left unglazed to reveal the buff body (2)

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 1988-2015 (on loan). 

The handle and loop has been off and reattached, and restoration to the spout. There is also restoration to the cover as well as the finial. The cover possibly associated.
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For a related ewer, see one illustrated in Zhongguo taoci. Changsha tong guanyao, Shanghai, 1985, pl. 79.