PROVENANCE: From Audubon, New Orleans Private Collector.

Dimensions: Heigth: 23.5 Length: 20.3 cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty Ji Blue Glazed Dragon Teapot. Potted in tea pot shape, thick, globular body, curve straight spout flanked on the lower belly, emerge u shape handles giving a balance on the opposite sides flanked on the mid belly, round mouth rim with dome lid finial bud fitted perfectly unto gallery mouth without any gap, raised with ring foot base. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of imperial five claws dragon flying careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves. The glaze has smooth texture and moisturizing, glossy quality. Which attracting unceasingly admiration.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.

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