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Chinese Famille Verte Glazed Porcelain Teapot

Kangxi period, AD 1662-1722

Description

Of bamboo form. Decorated with alternating bands of flowers and quite unusually, multicolored imitation bamboo sections. With correspondingly decorated handle, spout, and finial. All beautifully painted in bright enamels.
Height: 5 ¼ inches (13.5 cm.)
Similar and related examples: Taft Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; historic collection of Augustus the Strong at the Zwinger Museum, Dresden; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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