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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN COLLECTION
A PAINTED ENAMEL 'FIGURAL' TEAPOT AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
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A PAINTED ENAMEL 'FIGURAL' TEAPOT AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The teapot is fashioned with a phoenix-head spout and is decorated to one side with a quatrefoil panel enclosing a lady reading a book and a scholar in a garden, and to the other side with a lady and boy in a fenced garden, all on a yellow-enamelled ground of scrolling flowers between blue-enamelled scroll borders. The domed cover is similarly decorated and is surmounted by a lotus bud finial.
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) wide, handle to spout
18TH CENTURY
The teapot is fashioned with a phoenix-head spout and is decorated to one side with a quatrefoil panel enclosing a lady reading a book and a scholar in a garden, and to the other side with a lady and boy in a fenced garden, all on a yellow-enamelled ground of scrolling flowers between blue-enamelled scroll borders. The domed cover is similarly decorated and is surmounted by a lotus bud finial.
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) wide, handle to spout
Provenance
Private Belgian collection.
Christie's Paris, 21 December 2009, lot 320 (one of five)
Christie's Paris, 21 December 2009, lot 320 (one of five)
Brought to you by
Samantha Yuen