HI Peter, the ewer was listed as a chinese ewer, I looked for something on line that looked like the glaze and came up with Sanci, thank you for explaining that to me, however it dose look like it has some age, I know it strays alittle from traditional, but I thought it was a nice piece, do you think it is fairly new? .................... A: Probably. Actully, the shape isn`t something I can recognize as traditiona Chinese. P.