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An Yixing stoneware teapot and cover
Mid Qing dynasty
The elegantly potted ovoid body applied with a loop handle set opposite
a slightly curved spout, inscribed on one side in lishu with a six-character
inscription, surmounted by a domed cover and shallow loop handle, the
centre of the cover pierced with a small circular aperture, the stoneware
of a rich plum-brown colour.
10.4cm high. (2).
HK$10,000 - 15,000
US$1,300 - 1,900
For a closely related Yixing teapot of similar form and stoneware colour,
carved by Manshen, dated to the Jiaqing period, see Yixing Zisha Wares
in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2009, p.114, pl.54.
The inscription reads:
‘Jigu zhigong, Youzhu’, which literally translates as ‘Carved by Youzhu,
trying to copy the old’.
The current example closely follows the prototypes by the Qing scholar
Manshen (1768-1822), of which there are eighteen types. All those
Mansheng teapots were commissioned by him, but designed and incised
by Yang Pengnian.
清中期 紫泥旦形壺
「汲古之功。友竹。」
壺成旦形，拱蓋橋鈕，溜肩鼓腹，流為錐形，壺身刻行書「汲古之功。 205
友竹。」，泥色深紫，敦厚樸實。該壺形制上類似故宮博物院藏楊彭年
款飛鴻延年壺，延年壺是陳曼生與楊彭年合作創制的18種壺式之一。參
見故宮博物院編，《故宮博物院藏宜興紫砂》，頁114，圖版54。
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An Yixing stoneware shallow dish
Qing dynasty
The finely potted dish of shallow circular form supported on a short foot,
smoothly finished to the interior, the exterior impressed with a narrow
band of ruyi-head lappets, the base impressed with a two-character
zhuanshu seal mark, the stoneware of a rich purple-brown.
23cm diam.
HK$15,000 - 20,000
US$1,900 - 2,600
Provenance 來源：
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1983
The seal reads ‘Xianwei’, an unrecorded potter according to traditional
Yixing connoisseurship.
For a smaller Yixing dish, similarly impressed with a square seal mark in
the centre (of the potter Yigong), see Yixing Zisha Wares in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, 2009, p.260, pl.162.
清 紫泥淺口大盤
「賢惟」篆文方印
盤撇口，淺弧腹，圈足微撇，盤內光素樸拙，盤外飾一圈蓮瓣回紋，紫
色沙泥，色調深厚端莊，包漿光潤古樸，盤底鈐「賢惟」陽文二字篆
文方印。
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