Description: The pear-shaped body tapering to a slender neck?with a lobed garlic-head mouth, covered allover with a black glaze?streaked with russet brown 'partridge feather' splashes, the foot unglazed revealing the pale buff stoneware, 12 inch high. Provenance:?From the estate of Mrs. Mamie Howe, Long Island, New York, who worked for Parke Bernet Galleries in Hong Kong in the 1960's