A FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT 'HUNDRED ANTIQUES' TEAPOT AND COVER QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

of hexagonal section, the rounded shoulders rising from a tapering foot, a square-section S-form spout set to one side, with auspicious emblems all on a pale green ground, the conforming cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a 'faux rattan' handle with canted corners, the vessel supported on low bracket feet (2) 

Collection of Richard Bennett, Esq., D.L.
Edgar Gorer, London.
Collection of the Hon. Nellie Ionides (1883-1962).
Sotheby's London, 14th July 1964, lot 388.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

Edgar Gorer and J.F. Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hardstone, vol. 2, London, 1911, pl. 183.
Edgar Gorer, Catalogue of the Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains formed by Richard Bennett, Esq., London, 1913, pl. 298.

With spray consolidation to the green areas of the cover, most of the handle, to the join of the spout to the body, and to the areas where the handle joins with the body (handle likely broken off and reattached). With a sap-like acretion to the interior and a label adhered to the base.
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