A celadon water pot later mounted as an inkwell
Porcelain 18th/19th centuryThe oviform vessel with applied brown mouth rim and showing both large and small crazing within the pale green glaze, with a later added gilt-metal ink well and hinged cover bearing a agate finial carved as a cockerel and circular base on four paw feet inscribed NICHOLAS HAYDON/8 WEST 56th ST. N.Y.C.Porcelain 6.5cm high, overall height 13.5cm high.