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Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches
(China )
This teapot is an example of Yixing [I-hsing] ware and is glazed with a blue-brown transmutation.
Peaches of immortality, which ripen only once in a thousand years, grow in the garden of the queen mother of the West, according to Taoist cosmology. The peach stands for long life.
Provenance
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
China, Jiangsu [Chiang-su] (Place of Origin)
Measurements
6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
49.1045