Kangxi|The globular faceted body supported on the flat base by three bracket feet and moulded on each side with shaped panels enclosing sprays of chrysanthemum, plum blossom and camellia, applied with a faceted spout and long loop handle, the flat hexagonal cover surmounted by a crouching Buddhist lion finial. |18.4cm (7 1/4in) high. (2).|清康熙 德化白瓷開光花卉圖提樑壺Compare with a similar hexagonal wine pot and cover, 17th century, illustrated by J.Ayers, Blanc De Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain, New York, 2002, p.69. Another very similar hexagonal ewer and cover was part of the collection of Queen Mary II before her death in 1694 and is in Hampton Court Palace, see A.Lane, 'Queen Mary II's Porcelain Collection at Hampton Court' in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1949-50, vol.50, pl.8c. See an illustration of the same piece by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Volume I, London, 2016, p.157. See also P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, p.121, where the author notes that such a pot was inventoried in Augustus The Strong's collection at Dresden before 1721 as 'No.1' in his list of 'tea things'.