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Teapot and cover. Unknown production, Japan & China. The squat, pear-shaped body divided into fourteen lobes separated by single vertical lines in iron-red and painted on either side with a scene of a song-bird perched in the branches of a flowering prunus tree, in underglaze blue with details picked out in gilding The loop handle and upright spout are attached by a detachable metal chain to the globular knop at the centre of the cover, thus holding it in place on the teapot. The cover is lobed to match the teapot and decorated with two sprays of peony in underglaze blue. Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue with iron-red enamel, and gilding, height, whole, 11 cm, diameter, whole, 16.2 cm, circa 1662-circa 1722. Chinese Imari. Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Kangxi Period (1662-1722).
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