Teapot, drum shape, Prunus decoration

Drum-shape teapot with applied double-prunus decoration, in imitation of the Chinese. Pots of this form and date are rare, and this example is unusual in the quality of its body and glaze and the lavishly applied prunus decoration.

Provenance: Taylor Collection; The Shand Kydd Collection, Sotheby’s, London, November 1994.