Bonhams 1793 : An Yixing teapot and cover with naturalistic overhead handle Late Qing dynasty / early Republican period, signed Chen Jinshou, incised by Li Yong

Late Qing dynasty / early Republican period, signed Chen Jinshou, incised by Li Yong
Of globular form with a short spout, surmounted by a domed cover, the spout, knop and the dongpo style overhead handle naturalistically modelled in the form of tree stalks, the body incised with a landscape scene on one side and inscriptions on the other, the underside of the cover and base impressed with seal marks. 19cm high.

Sold for HK$ 75,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

The Yixing stoneware master Cheng Shouzhen (1865-1939), late Qing dynasty to early Republican period, was a native of Heqiao, Yixing. He was also called Shouzhen, and Bingxin Daoren was his pseudonym ('hao'). After the Taiping Rebellion, he relocated to Shushan and became an Yixing artist's adopted son during the reigns of Xianfeng and Tongzhi emperors, his craftsmanship surpassing that of his master.

清末民初冰心道人款段泥東坡提梁壺

「金壽」篆文方印
「冰心道人」篆文方印
「汲來江水烹新茗，買盡吳山作畫屏。利用刻」

壺圓身，溜肩，短流，三叉式高提梁，壺蓋、壺流和提梁作像生樹幹，樹幹上雕出大小樹洞，自然生動。壺蓋內鈐「金壽」二字篆文方印，壺身一側刻山水茅舍，遠山近石，小巧湖水，禽鳥高飛，均刻畫詳細，刻工細緻，刀法嫻熟，壺身另一側以行書刻詩文「汲來江水烹新茗，買盡吳山作畫屏。」，落款「利用」。壺底臥足中心鈐「冰心道人」篆文方印。段泥作胎，泥質中可見細微清灰砂顆粒，整壺比例協調，胎體敦實，尚為茗壺佳品。

程金壽，清末明初宜興紫砂藝人，生卒不詳，傳世品中曾見蓋鈐「金壽」，底鈐「冰心道人」印。冰心道人為清末民國初期宜興名工程壽珍（1865 - 1939）之號，又名壽貞。原為宜興和橋人，太平天國後移居蜀山，為咸豐、同治年間宜興藝人養子，但製壺技藝更勝一籌。其最擅長製「掇球壺」，並曾於1915年美國三藩市「太平洋萬國巴拿馬博覽會」及1917年「芝加哥國際賽會」獲獎。程壽珍中晚年製壺只作掇球、仿古及漢扁壺三式，所致掇球壺均豐潤渾樸，周正完美。