Ewers of this form are quite rare. Compare with a slightly taller mellon-shaped ewer dated Late Tang to Five Dynasties period, with double-beaded flutes dividing each lobe from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr., illustrated by Mino and Tsang, Ice and Green Clouds, fig. 46; and to another from an excavation in Songjinagxian, believed to date to the Tang Dynasty, illustrated as fig. 46a.

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