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27 May 2012 16:00 CST Hong Kong
Yixing stoneware and scholar's objects from private collections
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A small Yixing stoneware 'carp' teapot and cover, and two other teapots

Qing dynasty, signed respectively Qiu Tong, Zhiyun Shi, Hui Pu
The slightly pear-shaped body with a double-banded border at the waist and near the foot, a series of inscriptions flanked in between a spout and a handle on the sides, surmounted by a dome-shaped cover with a carp at the top, together with two other teapots and covers with inscription and seal marks.
10.1cm long. (6).

Estimate:

HK$ 20,000 - 40,000
US$ 2,600 - 5,200
£1,700 - 3,300

Footnotes

The two-character mark qiutong probably refers to the designation of the potter, and the two-character mark yuanji probably refers to the family workshop. The incised inscriptions can be translated as 'the moonlight illuminates the mountain, the water fills the pound, made in the month of midspring'.

The seal mark that reads Zhiyun shi zao is unknown from any traditional Yixing connoisseurship, whereas the name of the carver of the inscriptions, Liu Pei, has appeared on teapots made by Shao Jingnan. Current scholarship also suggests Liu Pei as an alternative name for the potter, see Wu Shan, Zhongguo zisha cidian, (The Thesaurus of Chinese Purple Clay Wares, 2007, p.129. The inscription can be translated as 'feelings of eternity'.

The other two-character mark Huipu is probably the designation of an unknown potter.

Provenance 來源:
Collection of Irene Dreyfus, no.13

清朱泥小壺三件

「月满空山水滿潭。時在仲春之月作」、「元記」、「秋同」
「寸心千古。留佩」、「水平」、「芝雲氏造」、「昌記」
「惠甫」

一壺梨形身，溜肩，鯉魚鈕，壺身以草書刻「月满空山水滿潭。時在仲春之月作」，壺把下鐫「元記」圓印，壺底鐫一「秋同」篆文方印；一壺成合歡形，蓋內鈐「水平」二字，壺身刻楷書「寸心千古」，落款「留佩」，壺把下鈐「昌記」圓印，壺底鐫「芝雲氏造」篆文方印；另一壺圓鼓腹成宮燈式，壺底鈐「惠甫」楷書方印。

留佩一名並未有文獻記錄，但「留佩」刻款曾見於清道光邵景南所製茗壺上。見鴻禧藝術文教基金會編，《中國雅趣品路-宜興茶具》，台北，1990年，頁38，圖版46。一說留佩為清道光時邵景南之號，其所製壺深得古法，善於仿製明代茗壺形制，風格工整渾樸，見吳山，《中國紫砂辭典》，江蘇，2007年，頁129。