Slip decorated to either side of the pear-shaped body with a peach-shaped panel enclosing Arabic script, applied to one side with a tall strap handle and to the other with a long S-shaped spout with ajoined cross brace, surmounted by an Ottoman metal domed spiral cover with crescent finial. 29.5 cm. CATALOGUE NOTE For a similar blue-glazed ewer with biscuit-fired decoration, see J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, p.345, no.11:182, where the author dates it to circa 1573-1620; and for examples of similarly mounted porcelain, see J. Carswell, Blue and White, pp.115-17. PROVENANCE Bonhams London, 8 November 2004, lot 113A.