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Teapot (bouillotte); hard-paste porcelain; globular thrown body with grooved moulded spout terminating in a dolphin's head; ebony and silver-gilt handle fixed to the pot at either side by means of a screw and nut attachment; a similar attachment retains the metal finial to which is fixed a gilt chain leading to the handle at one side only; porcelain decorated in brown sprinkled with gold and on the body, neck and cover with chinoiseries in two colours of gold, carefully tooled, and silver; on one side a Chinese lady seated by a bird on a stand and being offered bottles on a tray by a Chinaman; on the other, a Chinese figure kneels by a fountain before two other figures, one seated, one standing; behind them a tree and a pagoda; maker's mark.
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