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A famille rose 'bapo' teapot with cover, late Qing dynasty, Tongzhi (1862-74), mark and period.
A famille rose 'bapo' teapot with cover, late Qing dynasty, Tongzhi (1862-74), mark and period.
Decorated with 'bapo', roughly translated as 'Chinas 8 Brokens', with Tongzhis seal mark to the base. Length 15 cm.
Wear, minor firingcracks.
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’Bapo’ , can be translated to ’eight brokens’, an artistic image emerging in China in the mid 19th century. The number eight in Chinese culture is a lucky number and typically represents good fortune in chinese works of arts. This type of decoration often includes fragments of calligraphy, and refers to the damaged ephemera hyper-realistically depicted in decorations, torn book pages, destroyed paintings, damaged calligraphies, arranged in a collage-like composition, distincting itself from the traditional classical Chinese decoration.