Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches
This teapot is an example of Yixing [I-hsing] ware and is glazed with a blue-brown transmutation.Peaches of immortality, which ripen only once in a thousand years, grow in the garden of the queen mother of the West, according to Taoist cosmology. The peach stands for long life.
Artifact
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27978
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object
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normalized
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provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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1
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import
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