Set of three Chinese export Imari porcelain teapots and cover, graduated, Kangxi ca. 1720. Of star-fruit outline with hexagonal gilt knops. decorated with…

Set of three Chinese export Imari porcelain teapots and cover, graduated, Kangxi ca. 1720. Of star-fruit outline with hexagonal gilt knops. decorated with scenes of court ladies in a palace garden, one sitting at a loom, two taking tea, all beneath iron-red whorl borders, the covers with aquatic creatures in waterweeds. Provenance: Christie's, New York, "The Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain," 22 January 2002, Lot 21; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodr

Category

Asian art

Location

St. Paul