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A rare English japanned copper teapot
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A rare English japanned copper teapot

LATE 17TH CENTURY/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A rare English japanned copper teapot
Late 17th century/early 18th century
Of onion-dome outline, with zoomorphic spout and ebonised fruitwood handles, decorated overall to simulate tortoiseshell and heightened in gilt in the oriental taste
5¾in. (14.5cm) high
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Lot Essay

Comparison can be made with the decoration of this teapot and a lacquered copper wine cistern illustrated in Rupert Gentle and Rachel Field's book Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820, page 45, figure 18, from the Duke of Beaufort's collection. Further comparisons can be made by examining the patterns from John Stalker and George Parker's Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing, 1688.

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