M5261
£12,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white lotus form teapot and cover, one side with a fisherman seated in his boat, the other with a scholar seated on a rocky promontory in a mountain river landscape scene, between relief lotus leaf petals painted with flowers, the spout set on another petal panel painted with a fisherman in his boat beneath birds in flight, and the handle set on a further panel with river landscape scene, the cover with relief lotus pods amongst flowering branches.
6 1/2in inches, 16.5 cm handle to spout.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From a Dutch private collection.
Condition
The points of the lotus petals with frits, handle and spout tip frits.
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