A CHINESE FAMILLE NOIRE HEXAGONAL 'THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER' TEAPOT AND COVER QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) With fish-dragon handle and dragon-headed spout, the sides and cover with raised reticulated panels of flowers, the base with label 'X 182'14.5cm high Provenance:Mallet, London, 3rd July 1914, purchased by W. Howard and Ada Palmer for £112-10sRecorded in the Heathlands Inventory, dated Sept 1914, p.39, as: 'An old Chinese hexagonal teapot and cover with black ground, the sides and cover pierced with panels of flowers, the handle shaped as a sea dolphin, the spout as an Elephant's head (Early Khang Hi period.)' Compare with similar examples in the Leonard Gow Collection, the Taft Museum, Cincinnati and at Burghley House. 清康熙 墨地五彩歲寒三友圖六方執壺拍品來源：英國帕瑪家族顯赫私人收藏，Heathlands家族收藏檔案39頁記錄，Howard和Ada Palmer1914年7月3日以112鎊10先令的價格購於Mallet，收藏編號為182號

firing faults and very tiny chip to side of flower final