The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Teapot

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Teapot

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Copenhagen

Date:: 19th century
Culture:: Danish (Copenhagen)
Medium:: Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions:: H. 5-1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894
Accession Number:: 94.4.56 ab

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