Painted with lotus flowers and leafy tendrils above a ruyi-scroll band, the flame-decorated spout issuing from an ogee panel on the body. The style is based on early 15^th-century pieces, made for the Yongle and Xuande emperors.

Exhibited: ‘Porcelain for Emperors’, The London Asian Art Fair, June 2003, no. 20

Provenance: Christie’s, New York, 2 December 1989, lot. 284; Sotheby’s, New York, 19 March 1997, lot. 232; Anthony du Boulay