A rare Chinese blue and white cylindrical ewer and cover, decorated with a continuous lotus scroll around body, Ming Dynasty, first half of 16th century, 32 cm (with cover) high;, 17 cm diameter of base. Provenance: Rustam, Ujung Pandang, 1970's. Literature: John S. Guy, Oriental Trade Ceramics in South East Asia: Ninth to Sixteenth Centuries, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1990, no. 60, p.96, Reference: See Regina Kraal & John Ayes, ' Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Serai Museum 11, Istanbul, p544, pl 661 for an almost identical example, ' late 15th-early 16th century.