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Chinese Works of Art
Ceramics
Yixing Stoneware
Yixing Pottery from the Monterey Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Museum Funds; Acquired by the Museum in 1993
Lot 8095

A group of four Yixing teapots

Chinese, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art and Paintings
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San Francisco

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A group of four Yixing teapots

All of reddish brown clay, the first of compressed globular form supporting a beast form spout and adorned in an incised dark slip band, impressed with a Yixing Zisha minghu mark; the second of tall pear-shape form beneath a domical lid and rope-form handle, incised in calligraphic inscriptions and landscape decorations and bearing a Wu Desheng mark to the base; the third of ridged hexagonal section supporting a bamboo shaped handle and spout, and surmounted by a taiji medallion finial, bearing a Yang Pengnian mark to the base; and the fourth of compressed pear shape in square section adorned in raised relief floral motifs and supporting bamboo shaped handles and spouts, the base impressed OTC Made in China (stains to third and fourth).
7 1/4in (18.4cm) height of second and tallest

Footnotes

宜興茶壺四件

Wu Desheng (the mark to the second pot) was an atelier that employed numerous Yixing ceramicists during the early 20th century. See Bartholomew et al. The Art of the Yixing Potter: the K.S. Lo Collection, Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware (Hong Kong: the Urban Council, 1990) pp50-51 and 64-65.

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