Including the present example, only four Chinaman and Parrot teapots are known: the Wallace Elliot teapot in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see William King, Chelsea Porcelain, pl. 9, W.B. Honey, Old English Porcelain, pl. I, Reginald Blunt (Ed.), The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery, pl. 4, no. 28 and Glendenny and MacAlister, 'Chelsea, The Triangle Period', E.C.C. Transactions, vol. I, part 3, pl. XII(b); the Kaufman teapot in Colonial Williamsburg, see John C. Austin, op. cit., p. 18, pl. 2, Frank Tilley, op. cit., pl. 15, fig. 54; and the example from the collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. McGregor Stewart, sale Sotheby's, 13 November 1973, lot 84

These examples, together with the Chinaman and Serpent teapots (see Christie's sale, 1 October 1990, lot 150) and the tea-jars modelled in the form of a seated Chinaman, all show the characteristic pitting and fire cracks of the earliest experimental Chelsea wares