Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches

18th-19th century 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) Citation Source image

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.

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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Chinese
माध्यम
stoneware with glaze

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