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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EAST COAST PRIVATE 清十八 / 十九世紀 青花纏枝番蓮紋開光攜琴
COLLECTION 訪友圖詩文茶壺
A RARE INSCRIBED BLUE AND WHITE AND
FAMILLE-ROSE ‘LANDSCAPE’ TEAPOT AND
COVER, QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
(2)
Width 7 in., 17.7 cm

$ 20,000-30,000

The present teapot is particularly remarkable in its masterful
combination of blue-and-white scrollwork with famille-rose
decoration. For a related group of imperial teapots combin-
ing painted cartouches, poems and floral scrollwork, com-
pare a number of Qianlong mark and period examples ren-
dered entirely in famille-rose enamels, including one sold in
these rooms, 13th-14th September 2016, lot 261; and anoth-
er illustrated in Julian Thompson, The Alan Chuang Collection
of Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, pl. 113, sold thrice in
our Hong Kong rooms, most recently 8th October 2019, lot
3608. Compare also a third famille-rose teapot, decorated
with an outdoor pavilion scene and inscription surrounded
by feathery iron-red scrolls and scattered flower heads,
from the Qing Court Collection (accession no. gu 00154836)
preserved in Beijing, published in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains with Cloisonné
Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong,
1999, pl. 108. No other teapot of this period combining
famille-rose enamels and underglaze blue appears to have
come to market in recent years. For a very closely related
example of this form with similar decoration rendered
entirely in underglaze blue, compare the Qianlong Emperor’s
famous ‘Mount Hui Temple’ teapot, sold in these rooms,
22nd September 2021, lot 76.

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