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8095
A GROUP OF FOUR YIXING TEAPOTS
All of reddish brown clay, the first of compressed globular form
supporting a beast form spout and adorned in an incised dark slip
band, impressed with a Yixing Zisha minghu mark; the second of tall
pear-shape form beneath a domical lid and rope-form handle, incised
in calligraphic inscriptions and landscape decorations and bearing a
Wu Desheng mark to the base; the third of ridged hexagonal section
supporting a bamboo shaped handle and spout, and surmounted by a
taiji medallion finial, bearing a Yang Pengnian mark to the base; and the
fourth of compressed pear shape in square section adorned in raised
relief floral motifs and supporting bamboo shaped handles and spouts,
the base impressed OTC Made in China (stains to third and fourth).
7 1/4in (18.4cm) height of second and tallest

$1,000 - 1,500

8095 興 四件
8096
8097 Wu Desheng (the mark to the second pot) was an atelier that
employed numerous Yixing ceramicists during the early 20th century.
56 | BONHAMS See Bartholomew et al. The Art of the Yixing Potter: the K.S. Lo
Collection Flagstaff ouse Museum of Tea are (Hong Kong: the
Urban Council, 1990) pp50-51 and 64-65.

Please note that this lot is being offered without reserve.
(無底價拍品)

8096
A GROUP OF FIVE YIXING POTTERY DECORATIONS
The first a brushpot of tall irregularly cylindrical tree trunk section
supporting a song bird perched on a branch stem, the underside
bearing a four character maker’s mark possibly reading Fan Ya Fang
Zhang; the second a smaller trunk form brushpot adorned in molded
prunus design; the third a small two piece water dropper thinly potted
as several leaves; the fourth a small double gourd vase, the exteriors
highlighted by small polychrome enameled touches; and the fifth an
irregular sectioned jardiniere, the exterior sides encircled in archaistic
leiwen bands in raised relief.
8in (20.3) height of first

$1,000 - 1,500

興擺件五件

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8097
A GROUP OF THREE MINIATURE YIXING TEAPOTS
HUI MENGCHEN MARKS
All of compressed globular shape supporting domical lids, thin curved
handles opposing straight tapered cylindrical spouts, the undersides
of two impressed Jingxi Hui Mengchen zhi; the third impressed
Mengchen.
4, 4 1/2, 5in (10.2, 11.5, 12.8cm) width over handles

$800 - 1,200

興 形 三件 「 」款

For a fuller introduction to more recent homages to the Hui Mengchen
style of miniature teapots, see the three teapots with Hui Mengchen
signatures offered in Bonhams Hong Kong sale 20489 of 27 May
2012, lot 508.

Please note that this lot is being offered without reserve.
(無底價拍品)