A SILVER WINE EWER AND COVER Ming Dynasty (2)A SILVER WINE EWER AND COVERMing DynastyOf pear shape, the spout in the form of a bamboo culm and adorned with a lotus plate close to the mouth opening, connected to the slightly waisted neck with a scrolling cloud plate, the other side with a handle incised with floral-diaper ground, connected to a looping bracket handle applied with a lug to attach the domed cover, the cover incised with two bands of scrolling floral and geometric design below a finial, all raised on a spreading base pierced with openwork cartouches in the shape of crab-apple flower, inscribed below the mouth a Fushou she mark and dated Bingxu year, with a gilt 'peach'-shaped stand. 27cm (10 1/2in) high. (2).明 富壽社丙戌年款銀執壺 「富壽社丙戌年」楷書款Ming dynasty silver wine ewers are typically in the shape as the present lot, see a closely related ewer excavated in the mausoleum of Liang Zhuang Wang with a similar scrolling cloud plate, looping handle and cover, illustrated in Zhongguo jinyin boli falangqi quanji, jinyin pian [The Complete Collection of Chinese gold, silver, glass and enamelled wares: Gold and silver wares], Shijiazhuang, 2004, vol.3, p.107, pl.208.銀質，蓋穹頂，上作寶珠形捉手，蓋頂鏨刻菊瓣紋及幾何紋一周，子母口，壺口緣陰刻雙鉤六字款：「富壽社丙戌年」，長頸束收，溜肩鼓腹，前側安竹節形長曲流，流嘴安蓮花形片飾，流頸之間安多雲形片飾加以固定，曲柄，柄身鏨刻錢紋錦地及連枝花紋，蓋鈕及柄之間安活鏈，圈足外撇，足壁海棠形鏤空，壺身光素。 明代酒壺身多作長頸梨形，外加細彎流及曲柄，彎流與長頸之間加橫樑固定。本壺之片雲狀橫樑與湖北明代梁莊王墓出土之金素杏葉執壺之橫樑頗為相似，且壺蓋及活鏈亦頗相類，見《中國金銀玻璃琺瑯器全集·金銀器》，石家莊，2004年，卷3，頁107，編號208。