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Object 2012001

Teapot

China

1720-1730, over-decorated in the Netherlands, Amsterdams Bont, c.1730-1760

Height with cover 108 mm (4.25 inch), height without cover 79 mm (3.11 inch), diameter handle to spout 150 mm (5.91 inch), diameter of mouthrim 47 mm (1.85 inch), diameter of footring 49 mm (1.93 inch), weight with cover 264 grams (9.31 ounce (oz.)), weight cover 46 grams (1.62 ounce (oz.))

Teapot of globular shape on footring, straight spout with a curved C-shaped handle. Domed cover and round knob. Decorated in underglaze blue on both sides with two flower sprays and famille verte enamels with around the foot and the mouthrim a border with flower heads reserved on a frogs' spawn ground and reserves filled with flowering plants. Over-decorated in iron-red, gold and overglaze green and black enamel, in the Netherlands, Amsterdams Bont c.1730-1760 with four panels, reserved on an iron-red leafy-pattern ground, two filled with four panels, reserved on an iron-red and gold leafy-pattern ground, filled with a basket containing flowering plants and hanging ribbons alternating with a fisherman by a sentry house. The cover is decorated en suite.

The flower basket, in Dutch de bloemenmand was by far the most popular motif used on Amsterdams Bont pieces decorated in the Netherlands. (Jörg & Van Campen 1997, p.328)

Condition: A firing tension hairline to the cover. Two firing flaws to the inner mouthrim and two fleabites to the tip of the spout.

Reference:

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 390

Price: Sold.