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Yixing Stoneware
Yixing Pottery from the Monterey Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Museum Funds; Acquired by the Museum in 1993
Lot 8113
A group of nine Yixing pottery fruit, nuts and seeds
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$525 inc. premium
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A group of nine Yixing pottery fruit, nuts and seeds
Realistically rendered in numerous hues and slips, comprising a water caltrop, a water chestnut, a peanut, a sunflower seed, a watermelon seed, a walnut, an arrowroot, a ginko seed, and a tree chestnut.
3in (7.2cm) length of first and longest
3in (7.2cm) length of first and longest
Footnotes
宜興雜果擺件九件
Lai and Bartholomew The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Yixing Zisha Stoneware [Beishan Jigu Yixing Zisha] (Hong Kong, 2015) includes numerous similar examples of molded pottery seeds and nuts, most attributed to a variety of early 20th century renowned Zisha ceramicists. See catalog entries 163-167 (pp. 402-411).
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