chinese tea pot Need help in identifying this

Guys one of friends sent me this picture. any clue of its origins

 

Bet it's English. Needs more photos.

 

It was from a friend of mine. i only have this at the moment. il try to get some more

 

The shape isn't right for English, now watch me be totally wrong, but it could easily be Dutch.

 

I've seen 19thC ones with those brass top handles. The gilding and lid are absoutely not Chinese, anyhow.

 

You're right, they are not Chinese in style. But there are a lot of European style lids on the so-called chine de commande, Chinese porcelain for the European market. The designs were European, and sent over to China, where the teapot or whatever was produced. When I still sold Asian antiques, I saw a lot of chine de commande with silver mounts, and there is still a lot here in The Netherlands, mainly 18th century:
https://www.rm-auctions.com/nl/azia...d-white-teapot-silver-mounted-kangxi-ca-1700?
http://haffmansantiek.nl/collectie/keramiek-en-glas-ceramics-and-glass.html?cat=28
http://www.haefkensantiek.nl/grote_laat_kangxi_theepot.htm
Mariyan, the metal on your friends chine de commande teapot looks yellow, but maybe that is just the photograph. Most of the metal mounts I know are silver.
The subject matter of the playing children was very popular in The Netherlands in the 18th century, the figures were called 'zotjes' or little fools.
I sense another Sri Lankan VOC connection here.

 

The knop is gilded, rather than a metal mount, hm?

 

Yes, it looks like a gilded line, the rest of the knob is blue porcelain. Mind you, the photograph is yellowish, so it could be a silvery line. Again, the line would be the way Europeans ordered the porcelain in China, based on European taste.
The other metal is a metal mount, put on the teapot by a European silver/goldsmith. Because of the strong VOC (Dutch East India Company) connection with Sri Lanka, the metal mount could have been made by a Dutch or Dutch-trained silver/goldsmith in Sri Lanka, Batavia (present day Jakarta, Indonesia), Malacca, or even in The Netherlands.
The dish also looks very European.

 

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