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
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£100 - £200
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Hammer price:
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£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.