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FIG. IQB FIG. 15)0. A complete, mounted blanc-de-chine teapot in the
British Museum.London, ©The British Museum.
by means of a bronze chain, is in a Dutch private collec- PROVENANCE
tion.4 Vessels of this form must have been known to the
potters at the Staffordshire factories in England. They Kraemer et Cie, Paris, 19605; Henry Ford n, Grosse
produced red stoneware teapots closely following this Pointe Farms, Michigan; sold from the collection of
model in the early eighteenth century,5 and, by the Henry Ford n at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York,
middle of the century, Wheildon-type salt glaze white February 2,5, 1978, lot 61; acquired by the J. Paul
stoneware teapots were made from block molds.6 Getty Museum from Partridge Fine Arts, Ltd., Lon-
don, in 1978.
The gilt-bronze mounts appear to be of unique
model. NOTES
1. Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain: The Ch'ing
PUBLICATIONS
Dynasty (1644-1912) (London, 1971), no. 2, pi. cxix.
Wilson 1979, p. 44, no. 9; Watson 1980, p. 35, 2. Lane 1949-50, pi. 8c.
no. n; Watson 1981, p. 30; Bremer-David et al. 1993, 3. Donnelly 1969, p. 121.
p. 156, no. 263. 4. Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980, p. 287, fig. 230.
5. Jarry 1981, p. 91, pi. 86.
EXHIBITIONS 6. An example of both the teapot and the block mold from
Chinese Porcelainsin European Mounts, The China which it was made can be seen at the Delhom Gallery and
Institute in America, New York, 1980, no. n. Institute, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North
Carolina (ace. no. 6548.DC.EPy.SGi2i and SGi5o).
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