Image: Chinese - Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches - Walters 491045
Description: 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.
Title: Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches
Credit: Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
Author: Anonymous (China)Unknown author
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