Description:
Objects from China were always popular among North American consumers - before the Revolution, when the British controlled trade, and afterwards, when the United States undertook it own trade relations. Although rare, Yixing stoneware was owned in the American market. A stoneware teapot was owned by wealthy Salem merchant Joshua Ward. (owned by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem) Round, bullet-shaped teapot with replacement silver spout, and replacement rattan-covered pewter handle, teapot has circular lid with round finial, the teapot was hand built and applied molded decoration has been attached to the surface, the lid has paired scrolls - auspicious symbols, and the teapot body has a large fan shaped reserve with a dancing boy in a garden, the body of the teapot is decorated with the “Eight Precious Things” or babao (a pearl, lozenge, musical stone, conch shell, coin, mirror, artemesia leaf, and two scrolls), the bottom of the pot is stamped with a square Chinese character mark, also are the modern paper labels for "E. & J. Frankel/ No. 1055/ Collection" and "94013", teapot is made of dense, red stoneware made in Yixing, the center for the manufacture of red stoneware teapots. Condition: Lid broken in half and reglued
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