18TH/19TH CENTURY

Only one other ewer of this rare form and decoration appears to have been published. A ewer of identical size, but bearing a four-character Tui si tang zhi (Hall for Retirement and Contemplation) mark, in the collection of the National Museum of China, illustrated in Zhongguo guojia bowuguan yanjiu congshu, Shanghai, 2007, no. 134, where it is dated to the Daoguang period.