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The poem included in Qing Gaozong Yuzhi Shiwen Quanji, vol. 2, juan 24, p. 3
本拍品御題詩錄於《清高宗御製詩文全集•御製詩二集》，卷24，頁3

In his visit of 1751, the Qianlong Emperor was served tea a scroll from an attendant, as another gentleman sits on the
brewed on the bamboo brazier while he viewed the collection floor by a teapot set atop a brazier and a second attendant
of paintings and poetry dedicated to it. Upon returning from approaches the brazier. Outside, a pine tree grows amidst
the south, the Emperor ordered a replica of the Mount Hui rocks in the enclosed courtyard.
retreat to be built in Yuquan Mountain near the Forbidden A Yixing teapot of the same form, and bearing the same
City and instructed his workshops to produce a copy of the image and poem, is preserved in the collection of the Palace
original Ming dynasty bamboo brazier with an imperial poem Museum (coll. no. 故00164718) and published in Gugong
(dated 1751) inscribed to the base. It now resides in the bowuyuan cang Yixing zisha / Yixing zisha wares in the Palace
Palace Museum, Beijing. Museum, Beijing, 2009, pl. 24.
The original Compendium of the Bamboo Brazier was Most other Qianlong teapots bearing an imperial poem and
destroyed by fire in 1779. The following year the Qianlong illustrating a scene of tea drinking were executed in the
Emperor commanded court painters to repaint the scrolls famille-rose palette. Examples include one sold in these
under his supervision. Upon completion, the Emperor gifted rooms, 13th-14th September 2016, lot 261; and a closely-
the new Compendium of the Bamboo Brazier to the Mount related teapot that was sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms,
Hui Temple and ordered that it be stored in a special room. 27th October 1992, lot 156, and again, 2nd May 2000, lot
In addition, he had the paintings and poems transferred onto 646, and is now in the Alan Chuang Collection, illustrated
a series of steles, also to be kept in the temple. While the in Julian Thompson, The Alan Chuang Collection of Chinese
temple, along with the replica paintings and poems, were Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, pl. 113. A third famille-rose
lost to a fire in 1860, some of the stele survive, as do the teapot of this type, but with the outdoor pavilion scene and
Emperor’s own poems. inscription panels surrounded by feathery iron-red scrolls
The Emperor’s experience viewing the Compendium and and scattered flower heads, from the Qing Court Collection
tasting the tea made from Mount Hui’s spring using the (coll. no. 故00154836) and still in Beijing, is published in The
bamboo brazier left a deep impression on him, further Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
evidenced by the poem on the present teapot. In particular, Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose
the title of the poem expresses his appreciation for Wang Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 108. See also a famille-rose
Fu’s painting. The poem then eulogizes the materials and teapot which bears an imperial poem extolling sanqing tea
processes that go into making the tea, and the splendors dated to the bingyin year of the Qianlong reign (corresponding
of the art, the setting, and the history that enhance the tea- to 1746), which is modeled in the same form as the present
drinking experience at the Temple for Listening to Pines. teapot, but features poetic verses on both sides of the vessel,
The image on the opposite side of the teapot conveys the in the collection of the Chang Foundation and illustrated in
experience in visual form by showing a small temple in which Zhongguo lidai taoqi xuanji / Selected Chinese Ceramics from
one gentleman sits with two teacups on a kang and receives Han to Qing Dynasties. Taipei, 1990, pl. 162.

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