Details
The sides of the teapot are decorated with reticulated panels depicting `The Three Friends of Winter', pine, prunus and bamboo. It has a loop handle moulded as a serpent with scales and a slightly curved square spout, which emerges from the head of a dragon. The openworked cover is surmounted by a squirrel-form finial.
512 in. (14 cm.) wide


Provenance
With Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art, the Netherlands, 31 October 2002.
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