A FINE FAMILLE ROSE 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' TEAPOT AND A COVER of spherical shape with short tapering spout and bracket handle, the exterior enamelled with the Classical myth of Leda and the Swan depicting a nude female figure embraced by a swan and other bathing nymphs and attendants in a woody landscape, the cover with cherubs blowing horns and firing arrows, Yongzheng

A FINE FAMILLE ROSE 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' TEAPOT AND A COVER of spherical shape with short tapering spout and bracket handle, the exterior enamelled with the Classical myth of Leda and the Swan depicting a nude female figure embraced by a swan and other bathing nymphs and attendants in a woody landscape, the cover with cherubs blowing horns and firing arrows, Yongzheng

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This design is inspired by an engraving by G. Duchange after a painting by Correggio. Cf. the saucer in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam which is illustrated with the engraving by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit., pls. 227 and 228; another saucer is illustrated by F. Hervouet and Y. Bruneau, op.cit., pl.13.38, p.301

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