Rare - Antique Large 19th Century Zhisha Yixing Teapot Chinese Czech W. Schiller & Sons Czech, ca. 1840-1860 The pot is displayed at page 137 of ‘Yixing teapots of Europe” from Valfre & Shi. See last added pictures. Refined design. Made in the 19th c. A Fantastic and quality object. Very hard to find. Similar Teapots are found in the Victoria & Albert museum and Rijksmuseum. Teapot and cover of red earthenware, not made in stoneware but in orange terracotta shard, with moulded and impressed decoration covered with a dull red glaze in order to resemble Yixing stoneware. Hexagonal body moulded on each side with a dragon, the remaining surfaces being impressed with rosettes and other devices. The hexagonal spout issues from a monster's head. On the flat cover is a figure of a lion, and over the top is a scrolled handle with two dragons heads in the middle. We think this is not a Chinese version but a very rare Czech Schiller & Gerbing Yixing Teapot. Made after Wilhelm Schiller started his own factory. Marked: WS&S 2 Prior to running his own factory, Wilhelm Leberecht Schiller (born 1797) was in partnership from 1829 with Friedrich Vincent Meinulph Gerbing (b.1798) as Schiller & Gerbing, in a pottery in Bodenbach / Tetschen. Gerbing died in 1848 and his widow Karoline, an excellent business woman, took over running the company. Schiller could not work with Karoline Gerbing and left in 1850 to start his own factory, in Obergrund, just two miles down the river Elbe, specialising in majolica and terracotta items. In goede gebruikte conditie, lichte gebruikssporen en vlekjes. Een chipje aan hoek van de bodem en kleine fleebites deksel. Let goed op de foto's. Verder is het glazuur nog in goede staat. Afmeting: ca. 23,5cm H ca. 22cm B tuit ca. 15cm D Gewicht: ca. 2-5kg Word goed verpakt en aangetekend verzonden.