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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 8119

A group of five large metal-mounted Yixing pottery 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 five large metal-mounted Yixing pottery teapots

The first of tapered cylindrical section covered in elaborate blue and white enamels encased in an outer layer mesh of metal surrounding Budai and four roundels reading yi li zhao xin, the underside impressed makers' mark reading Yixing Zisha; the second potted in compressed ovoid shape encased in a metal mesh depicting dragons beneath a metal lid enclosing a Guangxu era coin, the underside impressed to read Yixing Butang Minghu; the third of compressed globular shape suspended by metal handles, the concave lid impressed to read duixiao, the underside bearing an impressed cartouche of lotus petals; the fourth similarly formed but slightly taller, the lid impressed with two double gourd maker's marks reading Yuxiang, the underside bearing a factory mark reading Zhenxin Chang zhi; the fifth of dark hue potted in compressed globular section suspended by metal handles and supporting a metal spout, the underside impressed Yixing zisha.
6in (15.2cm) height of tallest exclusive of handles

Footnotes

宜興茶壺五只

A teapot very similar to the second and dated to the 19th century, also mounted in what appears to be a 19th century coin embedded in the lid is included in 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), no 66, p.179.

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