Description: Chinese Export Crane-Form Tea Pot
19th Century
Molded as a crane seated on a large naturalistically veined lotus pad, the stalk forming the handle and the birds feet clutching the front of the lotus, the wings and breast with incised feather detailing, covered overall in a robins egg blue glaze, the lid modeled in the form of a lotus bud and covered in an aubergine glaze.
Height 5 3/4 inches.
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