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Lot 3
A Chinese Export Blue and White Canton Teapot and Three Plates
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 18th or early 19th century, includes a teapot with braided handle and cover having a pomegranate fruit, decorated in underglaze blue with Canton pattern (6 in.) (some nicks to the handle; small chip to the spout; hairline to lower lid interior; small drilled hole to cover), and three plates, one painted with a more traditional Canton design and the other two with a more detailed and imaginative style of Canton with three decorative borders, all three plates with European export foot (Diameter 9 1/8 in. largest) (first with hairline crack at rim; second with hairline cracks at rim and some nicks; third with chip and nicks to rim.).