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370 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY,
COLLECTED IN BEIJING PRIOR
371 (part lot) TO 1953, AND THENCE BY
158 | BONHAMS DESCENT

LOTS 370-373

370
A RARE MARBLED-CLAY HEXAGONAL
YIXING BOWL
Inscribed Pengnian, 19th century
The exterior finely incised with two scholars
conversing in a mountainous landscape with
pine trees, the reverse with a six-character
inscription, the mouth rim with a keyfret
border, the interior with a finely crackled glaze,
raised on a short foot. 15.5cm (6in) wide (8).

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY17,000 - 26,000 HK$20,000 - 30,000

An Yixing bowl with similar crackle glaze
to the interior, also signed Yang Pengnian,
was sold in our Hong Kong salerooms, 28
November 2011, lot 259.

For a bowl bearing a similar glaze to the
interior see also Yixing Zisha Wares in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, 2009, p.253, pl.157.

Yang Pengnian, active during the Jiaqing
and Daoguang reigns (1796 – 1850), was
considered the finest potter of Yixing ware
of the nineteenth century. Yang’s brother,
Baonian, and his sister, Fengnian were all
renowned Yixing potters. Apart from his fame
of jointly creating teapots with the literati,
Chen Mansheng, he was considered the only
master who revitalised the superb skill of hand
modelling after Shi Dabin.

371
A GUAN-YAO STYLE BOX AND
ROSEWOOD COVER
Qing Dynasty
The circular box thinly potted and covered in a
fine buff-coloured crackled glaze, with a fitted
lid and stand; together with a miniature Yixing
teapot and cover, cups and floriform stand,
marked Jiang Mengchen, Qing Dynasty.
10.5cm (4 1/8in) diam. (8).

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY8,600 - 13,000 HK$10,000 - 15,000