Bonhams 1793 : An Yixing 'toad' teapot and cover Mid Qing dynasty, signed Shao Wenyuan

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24 Nov 2012 16:00 CST Hong Kong
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
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An Yixing 'toad' teapot and cover

Mid Qing dynasty, signed Shao Wenyuan
The finely potted cylindrical body moulded with a bamboo shaped belt, applied with a rectangular loop handle and a short curved spout of bamboo form, the skillfully fitted flattened cover surmounted by a knop in the form of a ferocious toad with its head held up in an alert expression, the back with warty lumps, the underside impressed with a four-character zhuanshu square seal mark.
17.3cm wide. (2).

Sold for HK$ 37,500 inc. premium

Footnotes

Illustrated 出版：
Patrice Valfré, Yixing: Teapots for Europe, 2000, p.180, no.53

Shao Wenyuan is unrecorded in traditional Chinese Yixing connoisseurship. However, extant examples with closely related forms may suggest Shao as a Yixing potter who was active during the late seventeenth and early nineteenth century. For example, see an early nineteenth century enamelled Yixing teapot with a nearly identical from by Han Zhen, from the K. S. Lo Collection, illustrated in K. S. Lo, The Stonewares of Yixing From the Ming period to the Present Day, London, 1986, p. 206, pl.126.

清中期邵文元款紫泥三足蟾竹節壺

「邵」、「文元」
「邵文元製」

壺圓筒身，平底，三彎流，正耳吧，平蓋上一三足蟾蜍鈕，壺流、壺把均呈竹節狀，壺身素面無紋，壺壁上部飾竹段腹線一周。壺蓋內鈐「邵」圓印及「文元」篆文方印，壺底鈐「邵文元製」篆文方印。

邵文元，生卒不詳且為見史料中有所著錄，但根據傳世品判斷，應為十八世紀後半葉至十九世紀早期宜興紫砂壺人，羅桂祥藏有一把十九世紀漢珍製紫泥加彩三足蟾竹節壺，除器壁及蟾蜍有加彩外，其形制與該壺極為類似，參見羅桂祥著，《The Stonewares of Yixing From the Ming period to the Present Day》，倫敦，1986年，頁206，圖版126。