Teapot with Birds and Flowers

1700s height with lid: 13.3 x 7.8 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.250

This small vessel was likely made as a teapot for the European export market. The different colored overglaze enamels, orange, blue, green, and yellow, combine with a wiry black outline to form the design of a singing bird on a flowering bough repeated on each side of the pot.

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