Page 112 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE XV

Ewer with globular body, contracted neck, and three-
lobed mouth, hollow bell-shaped foot, and high handle with
double rib and a stud at either end. Hard white pottery with
applied ornaments of rosette and palmette design on the sides,
and a colourless glaze mottled with green and yellow. The
handle, though ending in a palmette instead of a serpent's head,
is evidently of serpentine derivation, and this combines with
the general form of the vessel to suggest Hellenistic influences.
They have, as a consequence, obvious affinities with certain

Italian wares of the Renaissance.

T'ang dynasty. H. io-6".
In the possession of Mr. George Eumorfopoulos.