Details
The pear-shaped body is decorated to either side with a leafy peach branch bearing three fruit enclosed within shaped cartouches in reserve on a ground of stylised flower heads on scrolling foliage. Bands of upright leaves and lappets encircle the neck and base and the spout and handles are decorated with a scroll. The base bears an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark.
8½ in. (21 cm.) high


Provenance
Private English collection, acquired by a Protestant missionary in Beijing in the 19th century, then by descent within the family.
Private Southeast Asian collection.
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