AN IMARI LOBED TEAPOT AND COVER decorated in gilt, iron-red, black, yellow, aubergine and green enamels with a bird perched on a blossoming peony beside a tree below a flying bird in a landscape, a band of karakusa at the neck, C-scroll handle and short straight spout, the compressed domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a chrysanthemum-head finial (handle with crack), early 18th Century

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AN IMARI LOBED TEAPOT AND COVER decorated in gilt, iron-red, black, yellow, aubergine and green enamels with a bird perched on a blossoming peony beside a tree below a flying bird in a landscape, a band of karakusa at the neck, C-scroll handle and short straight spout, the compressed domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a chrysanthemum-head finial (handle with crack), early 18th Century
19cm. wide

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For a similar teapot see J. Ayers, O. Impey, J.V.G. Mallet, op. cit., p.207 no.204

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