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Chinese Export Teapot and Cover
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This item is no longer available
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Dates
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Circa 1760
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Origin
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China
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Description
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A Chinese Export teapot and cover delicately moulded with a raised floral pattern, bianco-sopra-bianco (white on white). Painted with enamel colours with a large bouquet of flowers, smaller sprigs and insects and a pair of red cherries, probably at the workshop of James Giles circa 1755-65
This very piece is illustrated:
The Early James Giles and his Contemporary London Decorators - Stephen Hanscombe June 2008, page 71
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Condition
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Finial restored and tiny enamel losses
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