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An Hirado three-piece blue and white tea set
comprising a teapot and cover, a sugar bowl and cover and a milk jug, all with dragon handles and spouts, the teapot and sugar bowl with turtle finials, all painted with coiled dragon roundels grasping flaming pearls among clouds within bands of flowersprigs and wave-pattern to the feet -- the teapot 7½.in (19cm) high, (minor restoration and chips to extremeties).
See Colour Plate 20. (3)
comprising a teapot and cover, a sugar bowl and cover and a milk jug, all with dragon handles and spouts, the teapot and sugar bowl with turtle finials, all painted with coiled dragon roundels grasping flaming pearls among clouds within bands of flowersprigs and wave-pattern to the feet -- the teapot 7½.in (19cm) high, (minor restoration and chips to extremeties).
See Colour Plate 20. (3)