A CHINESE YIXING STONEWARE GILT-METAL MOUNTED HEXAGONAL TEAPOT AND COVER (c. 1700 China)

1070

  12.00 cm high

  4.72 inches high

Swedish collection

For information on similar Dutch mounts see Lunsingh-Scheuleer, Chinesisches und Japanisches Porzellan in europaischen fas-sungen. Braunschweig 1980, nos.244-247.

mounted examples may be found in several of the Royal Collections, including Dresden, East Asian Porcelain from the collection of Augustus the Strong, discussed by Eva Strober, La Maladie de porcelaine, Leipzig, 2001, page 119.

In good condition

with contemporary Dutch gilt-metal mounts, each panel moulded in relief with stylised dragons and precious objects, the cover with a winged dragon finial

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