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Help identify this Teapot

Not for tea, but for wine.

Photography is so vague, one can't begin to read the inscription, which also appears to be in archaic script.

This is a modern wine ewer, with the figure likely a representation of China’s famous drunken poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty. He and another drunken contemporary, Du Fu, were the Shakespeares of China.

The ewer is likely a product of the Shiwan kilns in Guangdong province, south China, from the look of the glaze.

Thank you TD

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