| The picture shows the "Ewer and basin in qingbai glaze" in the Song dynasty. A plain oviform ewer with rubular neck, a high double strand handle and slender curving spout, equipped with a deep, close-fitting cover with freely-modeled finial in the form of seated lion, and pierced with two holes at one side for attachment. On the foot ring are five firing-spur marks corresponding to those found inside the basin the sides of which are shaped in six lobes and rise to a scalloped rim. The white porcelain has a clear glaze of pale bluish tint. The exhibit is now on display along with more than 120 pieces of Chinese tea ware and related vessels from the Tang dynasty to the 20th century at the "Poetry and Ceramic Art: Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the K.S. Lo Collection of the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware" exhibition which was opened today (March 15) at the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware until March 5, 2007.
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