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A CHINESE GRISAILLE AND GILT-DECORATED 'NATIVITY' TEAPOT AND COVER, AND A 'RESURRECTION' TEAPOT-STAND QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1745 The globular teapot and cover and foliate hexagonal teapot-stand with the two scenes delicately decorated en grisaille and highlighted in gilt, within gilt spearhead borders Teapot 7 ? in. (19 cm.) wide, stand 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) wide
The Dutch engraver, Jan Luyken (1649-1712) made a series of twenty-four engravings of scenes from the New Testament in 1680, which first appeared in an octavo Lutheran bible printed in 1734, and it is from these prints that the Chinese artist has copied these two scenes; two other, closely-related, biblical scenes from this series, the Crucifixion and the Ascension, are also found on Chinese export porcelain. For a discussion on Luyken and these biblical scenes on porcelain, see Christiaan J?rg, 'A Pattern of Exchange: Jan Luyken and Chine de Commande Porcelain', Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 37 (2002), pp. 171-176.