A ‘BLUE AND WHITE’ TEAPOT

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A ‘BLUE AND WHITE’ TEAPOT
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, early 18th century
9,5 cm high
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3758.

The body of the teapot shaped as a lotus flower, each of the moulded leaves decorated with a floral spray, the slightly domed cover with a knob finial, the curved spout and the loop handle with small floral garlands.

For a very similar teapot from the Medici family collection and now in Palazzo Pitti, Florence, see F. Morena, Dalle Indie orientali alla corte di Toscana. Collezioni di arte cinese e giapponese a Palazzo Pitti, Florence 2005, p. 195, n. 93; another comparable ewer belonged to the Jie Rui Tang collection (J.P. Stamen – C. Volk – Y. Ni, Culture Revealed, Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges 2017, n. 110).