SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

The form copies Middle Eastern metalwork. A very similar ewer is in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p. 155, cat. 26; another, without cover, is in the Collection Bal, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, and is illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain – Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 94, and p. 215; and another from the collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III was sold at Christie's New York, 26 January 2010, lot 2.