A Chinese qingbai ewer, cover and basin Song dynasty 960-1279 AD, the ewer with an ovoid body rising to a cylindrical neck, delicately carved to the shoulder with peony above a band of stiff leaves, the cover surmounted by a Buddhist lion dog, the lobed basin raised on a gently flaring foot and with a continuous foliate peony scroll, decorated with a pale gently-crackled turquoise glaze, 28.1cm overall. (3)

Provenance: an English private collection, purchased c.1960. Sotheby's, London, 4th November 2009, lot 52.

Cf. The Johnson Museum of Art, New York, for another example of a ewer and basin from the George and Mary Rockwell Collection.