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Lot 8116
A group of six yixing pottery teapots
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$2,375 inc. premium
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A group of six yixing pottery teapots
The first of rounded cylindrical section supporting a leaf form lid and gnarled stem shaped handle and spout, the sides adorned in calligraphic inscription opposing an incised landscape; the second of cylindrical shape surrounded by ridged edges and supporting bamboo-form handles and spouts separated by a taiji and trigram design lid, the underside impressed OTC MADE IN CHINA; the third of cylindrical shape surrounding a nested interior tealeaf canister, the underside impressed with a square prunus blossom cartouche; the fourth of cylindrical shape incised in prunus blossoms and inscriptions below a lid adorned in separately potted rings encircling the handle finial; the fifth of compressed cylindrical shape adorned to the sides in inscriptions and floral sprigs, the underside bearing an impressed makers' mark reading Wanfeng Shunji; the sixth of gnarled treetrunk form supported by a twisted branch handle and adorned in molded squirrel and grape motifs, the underside of the lid bearing a maker's mark reading Liu Shan and the base impressed Yixing Zisha.
8in (20.3) width of fifth over handles
8in (20.3) width of fifth over handles
Footnotes
宜興茶壺六只
The inscriptions adorning the first and the fifth pots bear the signature of what appears to be the same artist.
The second teapot is of similar form to lot 3284 of China Guardian Beijing' sale BJ773 of 21 May 2011-- 'Zini Qingying—Zisha Guqi Huizhen [300 Years of Yixing Pottery]. The guardian teapot was offered as by the hand of Fan Dasheng (1874-1942).
Please note that this lot is being offered without reserve.
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