A CHINESE IMARI MOULDED EWER AND COVER of Near Eastern metal shape, with flattened pear-shaped body standing on a splayed foot, with high S-shaped handle joining the shoulders to the slender knopped neck and a long S-shaped narrow spout, decorated in gilt, iron-red and pink enamels on underglaze-blue, both sides with a central raised pear-shaped panel of a peony-spray, dividing peony, above a band of upwright stiff lappets at the foot, the neck with panels containing scrolling chrysanthemum-sprays, the pear-shaped domed cover with leaves (finial missing), Kangxi