An Annamese amber-glazed pottery ewer 10th / 11th century

the vessel of globular form with lobed sides suggestive of upright petals, tapering to a level shoulder below a short waisted neck and everted rim, the petite spout set opposite from a short peaked handle, the flattened domical cover carved in the form of a lotus flower, surmounted by a bud finial, applied overall with a streaky amber glaze pooling to a dark brown in the recesses and at the knife-pared foot, the shallow recessed base unglazed revealing the granular buff body, wood stand (3)

The Georges deBatz Collection.
Christie's New York, 30th November 1983, lot 332.
Thereafter with the present owners.

Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics and European Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1953, cat.no. 54.

In overall good condition with a firing-flaw 'ring' around the flattened collar, caused by the body and neck luted together. There is a tiny chip 1/8 inch close to the handle, affecting primarily the glaze. The cover is in good condition, with miniscule wear to two of the lotus flower tips, and one small chip to the underside.
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See a very similar ewer in the collection of John R. Menke, illustrated in John Stevenson and John Guy, Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, Chicago, 1997, cat.no. 54, p. 199.