Chinese Blue and White Wine Ewer and Two Pedestal Sauce Dishes Transitional Period, 14th Century The wine ewer having a hexagonal baluster body, painted with three sections of flowering branches flanked by a strap handle and scroll spout similarly decorated; the dishes, each lotus form with shallow bowls, painted with stylized flowers within leaf tipped reserves on the interior and exterior, and raised on a spreading base. The ewer with firing cracks where the handle and spout join the body. H of ewer: 8.5in (21.6 cm; Diameter of largest dish: 4.5in (11.4 cm