Chinese blanc de chine silver-gilt mounted globular teapot and cover

THE PORCELAIN LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE 'GOLD FOIL' DECORATION SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS DUTCH OR FRENCH PROVINCIAL CIRCA 1735, THE FINIAL LATER

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Chinese blanc de chine silver-gilt mounted globular teapot and cover
The porcelain late 17th Century, the 'gold foil' decoration second quarter of the 18th Century, the mounts Dutch or French provincial circa 1735, the finial later
Of 'pomegranate' form, with short tapering spout and star-shaped footrim, the body and cover moulded with a trailing branch extending from the loop handle, each side gilded with Orientals beneath a tree divided by two shaped oval panels of gilt dot-ornament about the spout and handle, the spout and handle with gilt-metal sleeves engraved with scrolling foliage (teapot with chip to upper rim and crack to lower terminal of handle, cover with slight chipping to rim and crack to centre adjacent to finial)
4 in. (10 cm.) high overall

Lot Essay

For a discussion of 'gold foil' decoration, see Aileen Dawson, 'Gold foil decoration on enamel, glass and porcelain: a new look', Burlington Magazine (May 1990), pp. 336-342.

For an undecorated blanc de Chine teapot of this form see P.J. Donnelly, Blanc De Chine, The Porcelain of Têhua in Fukien (1969), pl. 61 E, and for a similar teapot with Hausmaler decoration see Christiaan J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (London 1997), p. 329, no. 392.

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