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| Keywords: Chinese - Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches - Walters 491045.jpg 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 century 18 19 stoneware with glaze cm 16 5 accession number 49 1045 27978 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters place of origin Jiangsu Chiang-su China Walters Art Museum license Chinese ceramics in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Yixing ware Chinese stoneware Peaches in art Peaches of Immortality | ||||
