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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 8128
A group of seven blue enamel decorated yixing pottery vessels
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$875 inc. premium
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A group of seven blue enamel decorated yixing pottery vessels
Including six teapots: the first of miniature pear-shape covered in floral motifs and bearing a Daoguang mark; the second of cylindrical section covered in flowers and books bearing a Shao family mark; the third and fourth both covered in floral sprigs and lion dogs at play, one incised to the base in a poetic couplet, one bearing a Shao family mark and a circular mark reading Jingxi to the underside; the fifth and six of pear-shape potted in lighter reddish clay and covered in butterfly and flower motifs, bearing complex impressed makers' marks to the underside obscured by traces of blue enamels; and the seventh a tea caddy of similar decoration bearing an impressed cartouche to the underside depicting a forest cabin.
6 1/4in (16cm) height of last and tallest
6 1/4in (16cm) height of last and tallest
Footnotes
宜興繪藍釉茶壺七只
Another teapot enameled in a similar style and dated to the second half of the 19th century 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 64, p177.
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