Not sure if Chinese. If so, any suggestions on age?
Thanks
Not sure if that is the original lid.
The handle is typical for Chinese teapots. The dragon scales are in a mesh pattern (criss cross lines), which means it is Guangxu or later. Perhaps republican period or even later. Any signs of usage?
No significant scrathes. I don't think it was used as a teapot but probably kept on display. There was a chip on the foot rim that has been repaired but that means nothing I guess. Some impurities and flaws but I guess that does not make it old either. Wonder if they were made on purpose.
Do the decoration and the shades imitate a particular period?
Imitating Kangxi, but the dragons tells something different ... :-)
A later period can copy earlier designs, but the opposite is not possible.
Actually Peter I am finding mesh/cross-hatch scales on Yuan pieces but they were drawn more differently.