Lot 19

A Chinese porcelain teapot with a drum-shaped body decorated in underglaze blue, the body with two panels enclosing items of the 'Hundred Antiquities', above and below the panels a band of beads in relief, the cover with three precious objects and a seated Buddhist lion knob finial. Similar teapots are in the The Royal Dresden Porcelain Collection amassed by Augustus the Strong (1670-1733). China, Kangxi period (1662-1722) -H. 12 cm, three small chips to the rim of the cover and tale of the finial-