A Chinese yueyao ewer with stand. The ovoid body raised on a low, straight foot and divided into six lobes by pairs of fine vertical ribs rising to a bowstring band on the high shoulder which is applied with two pentagonal sprig-molded plaques attached to the base of the trumpet neck by a pierced tapering projection and set between the curved spout and ribbed handle, the fine-grained grey body covered with a thin glaze of grey-green tone. H18.7x19cm