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Lot 160

A DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE TEAPOT AND COVER

with silver-gilt chain, mid-17th century, of pomegranate form, supported by the star-shaped calyx foot, moulded around the sides with leafy twigs with the branch of one forming the loop handle to one side, the other side with straight conical spout, the cover in the form of a leafy branch, with nearly contemporary silver-gilt chain from handle to finial, 13.6cm wide

Condition Report: click here
Estimate: £100 - £200
Hammer price: £4,200
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Provenance: Dr. Bernard Watney

Bt. Bonhams 13th May 2010, part lot 304.


Literature: For the Meissen copy see no. cf Donnelly pl. 6aE.

Marchant 2014 Blanc de Chine Exhibition no. 99 £10,000.

Walters Collection III by Bushell 1881, P1 XIII.

Dresden Collection: Lon 5-9 Sargent shows an inscribed example at The Peabody Essex Museum, 2012, no. 98 p.206.

The piece appears to be in overall good order with no obvious signs of damage or restoration. The lid is possibly associated. 

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