CIRCA 1740

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A RARE EXPORT 'ADAM AND EVE' GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER
Circa 1740
Delicately enamelled on each side in shades of sepia and iron-red with Eve handing an apple to Adam, both figures reclining on craggy rockwork being observed by deer, an elephant, hounds and a feline, to the left a serpent is entwined around the trunk of a tree, the shoulder with a narrow band of gilt scrolling foliage repeated at the rim of the shallow domed cover below a similar rural scene with animals, footrim slightly reduced
7 in. (18 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

A very similar teapot and cover is in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p. 161, cat. 57. Another, from the Mottahedeh Collection, is illustrated by D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, vol.I, London and New York, 1978, p. 307, no. 300, also illustrated by F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 258, fig. 11.1. Compare also the tea canister illustrated by G. Godden, Oriental Export Porcelain and its Influences on European Wares, London, 1979, p. 224, pl. 139, also illustrated by Rosemary E. Scott, 'Jesuit Missionaries and the Porcelains of Jingdezhen', The Porcelains of Jingdezhen, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia No. 16, Percival David Foundation, London, 1993, p. 239, pl. 4; and the teabowl and saucer from this service illustrated by Elinor Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1978, p. 64, fig. 50.

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