A ewer by L’Escalier de cristal

A gilt bronze-mounted Hirado blue and white porcelain zoomorphic ewer – circa 1850

The underside of the base signed L’Escalier de Cristal

The Japanese porcelain 19^th Century, late Edo Period (1603-1868)

Height: 22.5 cm. (8 ¾ in.)   Width: 17.4 cm. (6 ¾ in.)   Depth: 13.5 cm. (5 ¼ in.)

In the form of a boy astride a hobby horse with removable lid attached to the handle by a gilt-metal chain.

Provenance

Sold Sotheby’s New York, 25 April 1998, lot 34 for $34,500

Partridge, London, illustrated in Catalogue 1999, no. 27