ewer

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The tub may be wooden, the ewer convincingly rendered as base metal, but the bedding and Mary’s gown are of silk with golden threads that is recognizably Italian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

A dragon curls its tail around the base of a golden, long-neck ewer, its body forming a handle of protruding, pointy scales.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021

But they’re irrelevant to counteracting the rupture of a vanished world that, a thousand years ago in China, brought about a stoneware ewer in the shape of a parrot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2019

We sat at a wooden table near a mural of Jorjadze, who was portrayed in her usual headpiece, watering a tree with rivulets of newspaper that poured out of a clay ewer.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

I fetched her some water from the ewer.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson