A Chinese cloisonné and gilt bronze teapot and cover, mark of Qianlong but probably late 19th Century, the overhead handle cast with lotus and tendrils, the domed cover, compressed ovoid body and scroll spout decorated with a polychrome formal design of lotus flowerheads and scrolling tendrils on a turquoise ground, within key fret borders, incised four character mark to base, height approx 19.5cm.