Description:
Chinese export porcelain teapot with cover (not original) in the Famille rose palette in iron red, gold, blue, rose, black, white, gilding, decorated on two sides with the Amyas coat of arms. The arms were granted to Thomas Amyas of Deopham, Norfold, in 1576, "Argent, a boar's head couped sable, armed or, between three crosses crosslet of the second." The Amyas crest is "a stag's head, erased, or, gorged with a wreath, ar. and sa. (tied in a bow)." The globular pot, which is glazed inside, has a double gilt band with spearhead border around the rim, traces of gilding on the end of the straight spout, and coil handle. The domed cover with its gilt acorn knop has a different color palette on its scattered floral sprays and a less-carefully painted gilt spearhead design around the rim edge.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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