Of slender form with long handle and spout; the bulbous, double walled body with a reticulated outer layer; the domed cover also reticulated. Decorated in underglaze blue; the body with pairs of contesting dragons face in toward the spout and handle; the inner wall with a floral design, seen through the reticulated panels of the outer wall; the neck with panels of flowers and leaves in white reserved against a blue ground at the neck and scroll-work diaper bands at the neck, shoulder and rim of the cover. The spout and handle with blue leaves. The glazed base pierced with five holes.
Literature
Similar reticulated ewer but without its original cover is in the Reitlinger Collection at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, illustrated in the Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition (18 July-13 September 1981) No.104, p.50 where it is dated 1690-1710.
