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A GROUP OF SEVEN BLUE ENAMEL DECORATED YIXING
POTTERY VESSELS
Including six teapots: the first of miniature pear-shape covered in
floral motifs and bearing a aoguang mark; the second of cylindrical
section covered in flowers and books bearing a Shao family mark;
the third and fourth both covered in floral sprigs and lion dogs at play,
one incised to the base in a poetic couplet, one bearing a Shao family
mark and a circular mark reading Jingxi to the underside; the fifth and
six of pear-shape potted in lighter reddish clay and covered in butterfly
and flower motifs, bearing complex impressed makers’ marks to the
underside obscured by traces of blue enamels; and the seventh a tea
caddy of similar decoration bearing an impressed cartouche to the
underside depicting a forest cabin.
6 1/4in (16cm) height of last and tallest

$1,000 - 1,500 8128
興 七只

Another teapot enameled in a similar style and dated to the second
half of the 19th century is included in Bartholomew et al. The Art of the

ixing otter the K.S. Lo Collection Flagstaff ouse Museum of Tea
Ware (Hong Kong: the Urban Council, 1990), no 64, p177.

Please note that this lot is being offered without reserve.
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8129
AN YIXING POTTERY CRICKET CAGE
The dark grey clay of smooth patina elegantly potted in short baluster
form and surmounted by a thin fitted lid enclosing a mesh of air holes,
the recessed base bearing an impressed rectangular maker’s mark
reading Zhao Ziyu zao.
3in (7.2cm) high

$1,000 - 1,500

興 「 造」款

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A GROUP OF SIX YIXING POTTERY ITEMS WITH CRACKLE
GLAZE
The interior of each covered by a white glaze striated by dense
cracquelure, the exteriors of all but the last incised in calligraphic
inscriptions or landscape motifs and adorned in impressed leiwen
patterns around the mouths; including a large bowl of inverted domical
section, a floriform bowl, a small cup of inverted domical section, a
pair of miniature quadrilobate sauce dishes, and an unadorned circular
dish.
8in (20.3cm) diameter of first and largest

$800 - 1,200

興 六只

Several similar articles signed by more notable ceramicists were
offered in Bonhams Hong Kong sale 19621 of 28 November 2011--
‘Yixing Stoneware from the Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Hawthorn Collection see
lots 259 and 260.

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