teapot BM-Franks.597.+

Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1760 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,

Dimensions:Height: 21.30 centimetres Width: 29.50 centimetres (including spout and handle) Depth: 19 centimetres

Description:
Tea-pot and lid. Globular body with spout and handle moulded with projections and suggesting a fish motif. Roses and sprigs of flowers in scroll-edged panels on a ground of gilt scroll-diaper varied by lattice-work in pink and red. Cover surmounted by a peach. Porcelain, with famille rose enamels and gilding. The teapot, which holds more than three quarts, belonged to Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84).
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图片[1]-teapot BM-Franks.597.+-China Archive

Comments:See Joseph Marryat, ‘A History of Pottery and Porcelain in the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries’ (John Murray, 1850), p. 289.L.B. Seeley (ed.), ‘Mrs Thrale, afterwards Mrs Piozzi, A Sketch of Her Life, and Passages from Her Diaries, Letters, and Other Writings’ (Scribner & Welford, 1891), p. 331.
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