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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
Ceramics
Yixing Stoneware
Yixing Pottery from the Monterey Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Museum Funds; Acquired by the Museum in 1993
Lot 8117
A group of eight Yixing pottery teapots
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$1,125 inc. premium
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A group of eight Yixing pottery teapots
The first three similarly rendered in compressed lobed globular shape surmounted by recumbent beast finials, bearing Bingrong, Shao family, and anqing[?] marks to the lids or bases; the fourth and fifth of irregularly cylindrical tree trunk form adorned in molded prunus branch motifs both bearing maker's marks to the base likely reading Yixing zisha or similar; the sixth and seventh both of stylized pumpkin shape, one bearing molded leafy vines to the exterior and one incised in calligraphic inscriptions, the latter bearing a makers mark to the lid reading possibly Fan Xiangde; the last rendered as a wrinkled profusion of lotus leaves, bearing a maker's mark to the underside of the lid possibly reading Wang Genfa.
8 1/2in (21.5cm) length of last over handles
8 1/2in (21.5cm) length of last over handles
Footnotes
宜興茶壺八只
The first three teapots appear to be of a relatively common shape: Bonhams Hong Kong sale 19621 of 28 November 2011-- 'Yixing Stoneware from the Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Hawthorn Collection' included three similar examples: Lot 235, a pair with Lanling Yuanji marks, and lot 292, Qing dynasty, impressed Bingrong like one of the pots in the present lot.
Please note that this lot is being offered without reserve.
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