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A PAIR OF ‘FAMILLE VERTE’ TEAPOTS AND COVERS
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, early 18th century
10,5 cm high each
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina,Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. nn. 3802, 3809.
Standing on small cabriole legs, the two teapot with moulded walls, loop handle, curved spout and flattened domed cover with a globular finial, the decoration of the body with ‘bird and flowers’ compositions inside rectangular panels, the base, the neck and the rim of the cover with a geometric band of diagonal lines.
Similar teapots were in the collection of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), now in the Porzellansammlung in Dresden (inv. PO 6331).
