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AN YIXING `HUNDRED-FRUIT' TEAPOT AND COVER 清乾隆 宜興紫砂百果題詩壺
SIGNED GE ZHENGXIANG, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
「蔣記」楷書方印
The globular teapot is modelled in the form of a pomegranate applied with
fruits and nuts. It has a water-chestnut-form handle and a lotus shoot- 「小祥」楷書方印
form spout that is impressed with two seals. The cover is fashioned as a
mushroom. The teapot is incised with poetic inscriptions in kaishu eulogising 詩文: 「本是榴房結子多，菱腰藕口品如何？裝來顆粒皆
the pomegranate and other fruits. The base is impressed with the seal marks 秋色，百果園中次第歌」
'Jiangxi' and 'Xiaoxiang'. The stoneware is of a speckled beige-brown colour.
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high 落款: 「貞祥」
£20,000-30,000 US$27,000-39,000
€24,000-35,000
來源:
PROVENANCE:
Yixing Stoneware from the Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Hawthorn Collection; Bonhams 香港邦瀚斯2011年11月28日《好善簃珍藏宜興紫砂》，
Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 203. 拍品203
Property from a Princely Collection.
貴族私人珍藏
The potter Ge Zhengxiang was recorded as a native of Yixing who produced
teapots and bowls during the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods (1736-1820).
The current lot may be compared to an Yixing stoneware teapot also
applied with fruits and nuts and dated to the Qianlong period in the Qing
court collection, and illustrated in Yixing Zisha Wares in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, 2009, p. 87, pl. 27.

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