Small wine pot or teapot

Chinese

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This small, squat, pear-shaped pot has an eared handle and a curved spout. A design of flowers and rocks is painted on either side. The quality of the blue is unusually good for wares of this type; indeed, it approximates the blue seen in mid-sixteenth-century Chinese porcelains. The character yu (jade) is written in underglaze blue, with no encircling element, on the base. The chipped spout has been repaired.

Small wine pot or teapot, Chinese  , Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, Porcelain painted in underglaze blue., Chinese

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