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AN YIXING POTTERY TEAPOT
CHEN MINGYUAN MARK
The clay of sandy dark chocolate hue, the thinly convex lid fitted to
the body potted in very flattened circular section supporting a ring
shaped handle opposing an extremely truncated cylindrical spout, all
raised atop the very short convex sides surrounding the crisply potted
thin foot ring encircling the recessed base bearing the impressed two-
character mark reading Mingyuan.
6in (15.2cm) width over handle

$4,000 - 6,000

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Provenance
Purchased 18 April 1983, Dr. To, Good Brothers & Co, Hong Kong
Thereupon acquired by the Museum in 1993

For a discussion of the 17th/18th century ceramicist Chen Mingyuan,
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. For an engaging discussion of the vibrant market
for ‘Shanghai Masterpiece’ homages to Chen’s work made in the 20th
century, see Bartholomew and Lai The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Yixing
Zisha Stoneware [Beishan Jigu: Yixing Zisha] Hong Kong: Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 2015, passim.

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