A porcelain teapot decorated in famille rose enamels, the spout modelled as a bird. The moulded body is decorated with peonies. The upper section of the body is adorned with alternating floral motifs on black and pink grounds.

BIBLIOGRAPHY :

For a comparable example, see:

– Yang-ts’ai: The Foreign Colors, Rose Porcelains of the Ch’in Dynasty, by H. A. Crosby Forbes, Milton, MA, 1982, p. XX
– Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA, object no. 2022-11-1

PROVENANCE :

– Private european collection

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