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Source Description
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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27978
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Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches
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27978
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title
Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches
description
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.
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
18th-19th century
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CC0
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en
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Ceramics
teapots
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import
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6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
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Chinese
style
Yixing [I-hsing] ware
dynasty
Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty
med
stoneware with glaze
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6238
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CHN
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none
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