A FAMILLE VERTE DOUBLE-SPOUTED TEAPOT AND COVER Kangxi Of lobed melon shape with further petals at the shoulder and above the foot, surmounted by an arched bracket handle and applied with two spouts on opposite sides of the body, the domed cover with flower-bud finial, the interior divided into two compartments, the exterior finely enamelled with sprays of red flowers on leafy green stems, the cover similarly decorated. 15.5cm (6 1/8in) high. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清康熙 五彩花卉紋雙流茶壺 Provenance: acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, on 29th October 2014 (collector's notes) Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: The Oriental Ceramic Society, China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental Ceramic Society Members, London, 2016, pp.310-311, no.184 M.White, Drinking at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Whites' House collection, vol.2, n.p, 2021, p.214 (Published and Illustrated) 來源：獲得于倫敦古董商R & G McPherson Antiques，2014年10月29日（藏家筆記） 展覽著錄：東方陶瓷學會，《龍隱: 英國東方陶瓷學會會員珍稀藏品展圖錄》，倫敦，2016年，第310-311頁，編號184 M.White，《Drinking at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Whites' House collection》，第2冊，無出版地，2021年，第214頁（著錄） Porcelain teapots with overhead handles first appeared in the late Ming dynasty, produced largely for export to Japan, where such forms were particularly admired. The present example is, however, highly unusual in its conception, featuring twin spouts and an interior divided into two separate chambers, allowing different infusions to be poured from a single vessel. A comparable double-form teapot in Yixing stoneware, together with a Western copy, was recorded in the collection of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony (r.1694-1733), and is preserved in the Zwinger Collection, Dresden, attesting to the fascination such inventive forms held for early European collectors. See a very similar famille verte double-sided porcelain teapot, late 17th early 18th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (79.2.1317a,b), formerly in the collection of Samuel Putnam Avery Sr., and a very similar example partly decorated in underglaze blue, illustrated in Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics from the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles, Taipei, 1992, no.92. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing