A 'European Subject' teapot and cover and a spoon-tray
A 'European Subject' teapot and cover and a spoon-tray

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A 'European Subject' teapot and cover and a spoon-tray
Qianlong
The teapot with globular sides, enamelled with a couple in 18th Century European dress leaning against a rock and toasting a glass of wine, at their feet a curled up black-spotted hunting dog asleep beside a brown one looking up eagerly at his master, the gentleman's rifle resting against his right shoulder, in the background across a lake a medieval castle on a hill; and a lobed hexagonal spoon-tray enamelled with a similar decoration
the teapot 13.5 cm. high, the spoon-tray 12.8 cm. wide

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