EFE 15 A splashed Qingbai ewer and cover

元 青白釉蟠螭把壺

Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)

The ewer is of double-gourd form with globular lower bulb below the pear-shaped bulb set with a curved spout opposite the loop handle shaped as a chilong. It is covered with a pale lightly crackled bluish-grey glaze irregularly splashed with ferruginous brown spots. The domed cover has a loop knop. The base is unglazed.
Hight 12.5 cm

A closely comparable ewer is inthe Metropolitan Museum and illustrated by Pierson, S. ed., Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 2002,p. 130. Another is in the Victoria & Albert Museum online collection archive, museum number FE75&A-1975

EFE 15 元 青白釉蟠螭把壺
時代：元朝，西元1279至1368年。
特徵：此壺呈葫蘆型，圓蓋上有一環鈕，螭龍造型手柄，壺流彎曲。通體施淡藍灰色釉，可見細密開片與不規則散布的鐵褐色斑紋，底座未上釉。
尺寸：高12.5公分。