18TH CENTURY

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A CHINESE MUGHAL-STYLE CELADON JADE TEAPOT, COVER AND STAND
18TH CENTURY
The well carved teapot of compressed globular shape standing on a short splayed foot and with a short cylindrical neck, carved in shallow relief with parallel curved lines around the body, incorporating inclusions in the stone to imitate overlapping petals between bands of acanthus-leaf motifs, the motifs repeated on the straight spout and the shallow domed cover, the handle carved in openwork as a spray of flowering acanthus with curved leaves forming loops and suspending a loose ring, the foot with a blossoming chrysanthemum, the openwork stand pierced with lotus flowers between pillars with ruyi-head terminals, the stone of pale celadon tone with paler and darker inclusions, minor chips
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Although carved in the Mughal style, the Chinese features seen on this teapot, such as the floral handle suspending a loose ring and the Chinese style stand, indicate that it was made in a Chinese workshop by an Indian lapidary, or a lapidary working in the Indian style. It is very rare to find jade teapots of this type complete with their stands. Compare the jade teapot in the National Palace Museum, which has a similarly shaped body, swirling design, and a straight spout, illustrated in Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, p. 215.

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