Sold Ceramics - Sold Blue and White Kangxi Period 1662-1722 - Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares - Page 3

Object 2012326

Teapot

China

1700-1720

Height 100 mm (3.94 inch), diameter handle to spout 133 mm (5.24 inch), diameter of mouthrim 36 mm (1.41 inch), diameter of footring: 55 mm (2.17 inch), weight with cover 235 grams (8.29 ounce (oz.)), weight cover 41 grams (1.45 ounce (oz.))

Teapot, octagonal shaped on an octagonal footring. Straight spout and C-shaped handle. Domed cover with a round knob. Decorated in underglaze blue with flowering plants on each facet. Around the neck a spiral pattern border and on the handle and spout a single flowering stem. The cover is decorated en suite.

For an identically shaped, sized and in underglaze blue decorated teapot, please see:

Aziatische Ceramiek en Glas, (D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, exhibition catalogue of the J.M. van Diepen collection, Fraeylemaborg Slochteren, Groningen 1982), p.17, cat. 31.

For an identically shaped, sized and in Chinese Imari decorated teapot, please see:

Sold Ceramics - Sold Chinese Imari 1700-1800 - Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares - Page 1 - Object 2010489.

Condition: Some glaze rough spots and a fleabite to the edge of the cover and a fleabite and frit to the tip of the spout.

Reference:

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1982/2, cat. 31

Price: Sold.