A FAMILLE NOIRE TEAPOT AND COVER

KANGXI PERIOD

Details

A FAMILLE NOIRE TEAPOT AND COVER
KANGXI PERIOD
Of hexagonal form, the sides with alternating pierced panels of colorful bamboo, pine and flowering vine below a scrolling chrysanthemum blooms, a wooden handle to one side, a replacement silver spout to the other
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The du Boulay Collection, Bonham's, London, 10 November 2003, lot 9
Michael Gillingham

Lot Essay

A similar teapot was recorded in the inventory of the contents at Burghley House in 1688-90. Also compare T.V. Litzenburg, Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, London, 2003, p. 59, pl. 42.

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