A Blue and White Porcelain Ewer in the Ming style, the pear-form body painted with shaped panels enclosing fruiting peaches and lychee, circled by lotus sprays between a band of lotus scrolls and a row of overlapping lappet leaves, the neck with further leaves and surmounted by a flared mouth, applied with a curving spout decorated with foliate scrolls, the handle with lingzhi. Height 10 1/2 inches.