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A RARE WUCAI TEAPOT AND COVER cover dating to c.1700, with very similar decoration and shape, in the British
17TH CENTURY Museum, gifted by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826-1897), is illustrated
The bud-shaped body is decorated with a shaped cartouche enclosing by S. J. Vainker in Chinese Pottery and Porcelain. From Prehistory to the
fowering leafy branches in reserve on a densely arranged network of Present, London, 1995, p. 149.
hexagons, each enclosing a stylised blossom. The handle and spout are A similarly-decorated large Chinese ewer with overhead handle dated from
decorated with loosely arranged stylised clouds. The cover is similarly the Chongzhen (1628-1644) to Shunzhi period (1644-1661) is illustrated in
decorated with three fower roundels on a geometrical ground. the Idemitsu Museum of Art exhibition catalogue Kakiemon to Nabeshima
9æ in. (28.8 cm.) wide
[Kakiemon and Nabeshima], Tokyo, 2008, p, 128, no. 92.
£6,000-8,000 US$7,500-9,900
€6,800-9,000

The teapot belongs to a group of wares specifcally ordered by Japanese 十七世紀 五彩花卉紋茶壺
connoisseurs from the Jingdezhen kilns in China, from the Chongzhen
period (1628-1644) and throughout the 17th century. A wucai teapot and

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