Chinese transitional blue-and-white porcelain teapot salvaged from a shipwreck in the South China Sea, late Ming-early Qing dynasty, ca. 1643. Decorated with…

Chinese transitional blue-and-white porcelain teapot salvaged from a shipwreck in the South China Sea, late Ming-early Qing dynasty, ca. 1643. Decorated with flowering prunus boughs executed in blue underglaze. With an Axel Vervoordt collection label along the underside. An obscured mark in blue underglaze along the underside. Illustrated in Howard, "Choice of the Private Trader," pg. 144, no. 152. Provenance: Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp, Belgium; Christie's, Amsterdam, "The Property of Captain Mi

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