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A RARE FAMILLE VERTE ‘JAPANESE STYLE’ TEAPOT The present lot is a rare example of direct Chinese copying of
AND COVER Japanese Kakiemon-style wares. A matching Japanese teapot from
Kangxi the Jenyns collection is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and
The elegantly potted vessel of elongated melon shape with eight illustrated by S.Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain London, 1965, pl.78A.
lobes applied with loop handle and curving spout, decorated with Jenyns argued that the teapot would have been made to meet a
various flower sprays including chrysanthemum and lotus all between Western demand, as Japanese tea-making procedures did not require
lotus scroll border at the foot and one of peony on the shoulder, the such a pot; rather the Chinese version would have been supplied to
handle and spout decorated with green karakusa (‘Chinese grass’), the Dutch in Batavia or other European trading posts.
the domed cover similarly decorated with peony, surmounted by a ball
knob finial. Compare with a very similar famille verte teapot and cover, Kangxi,
15.5cm (6 1/8in) high. (2). illustrated in Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe
1650-1750, London, 1990, no.502. Another is illustrated by J.Ayers,
£12,000 - 15,000 Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty
CNY94,000 - 120,000 the Queen, vol.1, London, 2016, no.252.

清康熙 五彩柿右衛門風格花卉紋瓜棱形蓋壺

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