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Lot Essay
For a closely related ovoid example, see Herbert and Sylvia Jacobs Collection, Christie's, New York, 24 January 1994, lot 102; also see Harriet Goldweitz Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 20 January 2006, lot 141. For a tea-canister press-molded with similar Chinoiserie figures set on patterned ground, see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware, 1650-1800, London, 1990, p. 195, no. 93.
Though closely related to several of the print sources found in Johan Nieuhoff's, An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham or Emperour of China, first published in 1669, the exact design source for the figures on this teapot is yet to be identified.
Though closely related to several of the print sources found in Johan Nieuhoff's, An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham or Emperour of China, first published in 1669, the exact design source for the figures on this teapot is yet to be identified.