A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE TEAPOT AND COVER
YONGZHENG PERIOD
Of squat pear shape, finely enamelled to both sides with a cockerel standing by a weathered rock and flowering prunus, within a hexafoil cartouche and further cell-pattern decoration, the spout with a silver-mounted tip
4 in. (10.1 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1998, lot 1105
Lot Essay
For a very similar teapot see Scheurleer, op. cit., pl. 130.
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