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a Chinese exPort silver teaPot and Cover
Han Tianbao stamped mark, 19th/20th century
The pear-shaped body decorated in repoussé with birds amongst
peony and rockwork and with elaborate foliate cartouches, flanked
with a rising spout and naturalistic loop handle imitating wood, the
mouth rim foliated, the receded lid with a flower finial, the base with a
three-character mark 漢天寶, han tianbao.
19cm (7 1/2in) wide (2).

£800 - 1,200 HK$9,600 - 14,000
CNY7,700 - 12,000

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a Chinese exPort silver teaPot
Wang Hing stamped mark, late 19th/early 20th century
The globular pot decorated in repoussé with a dense bamboo and bird
pattern, flanked with a naturalistic bamboo form S-shaped spout and
loop handle with ivory collars.
20.5cm (8in) wide

£1,800 - 2,200 HK$22,000 - 26,000
CNY17,000 - 21,000

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a Pewter teaPot and Cover
Kangxi
The quatre-lobed pot with bronze damascened and incised decoration
with pine trees, rockwork and the Three Abundances, pomegranate,
peach and finger citron, the spout sharply everted, crowned with a
stepped loop handle with lacquered reed covering.
20.5cm (8in) high (2).

£1,500 - 1,800 HK$18,000 - 22,000 194
CNY14,000 - 17,000

Compare the decoration and technique on the present lot with a pewter
tea canister, c.1700, illustrated in D.S. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities:
Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, London 1997, p. 222, no. 302.

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