(1) The ewer was excavated from the tomb of Li Xian, outside Guyuan Ningxia.

(2) ÔÇÿAye, that's so - thank God,ÔÇÖ Marion said briskly as she poured water into the bronze ewer on the table near the curtained bed.

(3) Water trickles from a tributary spring into a ewer held against the outlet by a maiden gracefully leaning forward as she grasps the stem of an olive bush to steady herself.

(4) A number of significant pieces, such as a silver-gilt ewer and basin made by George Wickes for Frederick Prince of Wales, first acquired only a few years ago, did not arouse much enthusiasm on their reappearance on the market.

(5) This ewer , along with the rest of the service, weighing nearly seven thousand ounces altogether, descended in the Methuen family until 1920.

(6) The ewer and basin in Plates VI and VII are the only French objects among the early diplomatic gifts in the Kremlin collection and were presented by the earl of Carlisle probably because of their provenance rather than their stylishness.

(7) It was more their way to arrive unannounced, to appear swimming in the water trough between one dip of the ewer and the next, and then to fly away over the yard in a flurry of laughter.

(8) The women moved quickly and surely around the tent, a ewer of scented water, and a bowl appearing, along with towels and her change of clothes.

(9) A decorative ewer strung on the line in this work reappears in Kilim All Totem discharging small Op-art patterns from its perch atop a miraculous stack of oil barrels, porcelain vessels and colorful cartoon patches.

(10) There are ewers like eagles and cockerels, incense-burners like lynxes and a water-pourer in the form of an unfortunate humped cow (properly a zebu) which suckles its calf while a lion bites its hump.

(11) Figures and devices were painted and displayed on saddles, bridles, and collars, on censers, on goblets and cups, and flagons, on dishes and ewers , in tents, on curtains and on chairs, and upon all articles and utensils.

(12) Various black-clad servants bustled about the room and began carrying in trays of food and ewers of water and wine.

(13) The ewers in Plate XIII, for example, are both inspired by Near Eastern models.

(14) Three men lugged in a wooden tub, followed by a stream of servants bearing ewers of hot water.

(15) It also contains the only known examples from Timurid Iran of large glazed ceramic ewers .

(16) It contained eight cabinets containing chiefly silver-gilt objects: 24 basins, 20 ewers , 215 tureens and bowls, 819 plates of different sizes, 231 spoons and forks, 78 saltcellars, 59 candelabra, and 145 drinking vessels.

(17) The first, wheel-engraving, was often centred on ancient forms, typically featuring Homeric themes from Flaxman applied to amphora and oinochee shaped decanters, ewers and vases.

(18) The collection has evocative frames of early Christians going on yaatra to Jerusalem which give intimate nuanced details of mediaeval modes of dress, functional items like water jugs, ewers etc.

(19) The other dishes and the ewers and basins are all signed by or have been convincingly attributed to a skilled but anonymous engraver known from his monogram signature as ÔÇÿP over MÔÇÖ.

(20) The list is substantial, totalling more than 15,500 ounces and including many decorated ewers and basins, livery pots, cups and salts, as well as large quantities of plain utilitarian plate.