A Bow Kakiemon teapot and cover, circa 1752

of small size and lobed oval form, painted in Kakiemon style with flowering prunus branches and an iron-red lappet and saw-tooth border to the rim, minor chip, hairline crack.

Acquired from Roderick Jellicoe, London, 3rd June 1993

London, Stockspring Antiques, The Dragon and Quail, 2000, illustrated in exhibition catalogue, p. 10, no. 16

There is a flat shallow chip on the rim of the teapot. There is a hairline crack to the lower part of the body.
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This form is taken directly from a Japanese Arita teapot, an example with European silver-gilt mounts is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no. C.413&A-1909. The shape was also produced at Meissen in the early 1730s, a rare example produced for the Japanese palace with an incised inventory number N=295-/w was sold at Sotheby's on 2nd December 2004, lot 12. The current Bow example differs with a slender straight spout where the Japanese and Meissen examples are curved. Another example of this rare form with a slightly varying border at the rim is illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain: The Collection Formed by Geoffrey Freeman, 1982, pl. III, no. 51.