Ceramic: teapot

One globular chocolate brown yixing ceramic teapot with a large ring-shaped handle decorated with an incised scale pattern. Teapot surmounted by a lid with a removable dragon's head held in place by twine and a bilaterally symmetric knob in the form of a double spiral or cloud design. Sides of teapot feature moulded designs in low relief of a carp and a dragon respectively.

Rewi Alley

Part of collection Alley gave to Canterbury Museum during Museum director Roger Duff's trip to China in 1956.

185x99.63mm (h x w)

C1956.309

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Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)