A SMALL XINGYAO LION-HANDLED EWER Tang Dynasty Elegantly modelled with a slender ovoid body surmounted by a waisted cylindrical neck with lipped rim, applied with a short spout to one side of the shoulder and a lion-shaped handle to the other side of the rim leaping into the interior, all under a creamy-white glaze falling unevenly above the foot to reveal the buff stoneware body. 10cm (4in) high. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 唐 邢窯白釉獅把小執壺 Provenance: Bluett & Sons Ltd., London Beryl Inglis, London, acquired from the above on 1 May 1967 (collector's notes) Bonhams Knightsbridge, 19 September 2006, lot 576 Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, in 2007 (collector's notes) Published and Illustrated: M.White, Drinking at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Whites' House collection, vol.2, n.p, 2021, p.39 來源：倫敦古董商 Bluett & Sons Beryl Inglis，倫敦，于1967年5月1日獲得于上處（藏家筆記） 邦瀚斯騎士橋，2006年9月19日，拍品編號576 獲得于倫敦古董商R & G McPherson Antiques，2007年（藏家筆記） 著錄：M.White，《Drinking at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Whites' House collection》，第2冊，無出版地，2021年，第39頁 See six similar Xingyao water-droppers with lion-shaped handles, Tang dynasty, illustrated in Xing Kiln in its Millennium (千年邢窯), Beijing, 2007, pp.146-149. See also a similar Xingyao lion-handled ewer, Tang dynasty, illustrated by B.Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1965, p.100, no.289. A further related white-glazed ewer, 9th century, late Tang dynasty, from the Eumorfopoulos collection, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, of similar form modelled with a similar lion handle, is illustrated by S.Pierson, Chinese Ceramics, London, 2009, p.19, no.18. Compare with a similar Xingyao white-glazed lion-handled ewer, late Tang dynasty, which was sold at Bonhams London, 6 November 2025, lot 121. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing