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A GROUP OF FIVE YIXING POTTERY TEAPOTS
8131 The first of bamboo form in square section, the impressed mark to
A GROUP OF FOUR YIXING TEAPOTS the underside reading Zhongguo Yixing; the second of bamboo form
The first two a pair of compressed persimmon shape surmounted in cylindrical section bearing a mark to the underside of the lid reading
by stem form lids and impressed Zhongguo Yixing to the undersides; Shen Yinfeng; the third of well-polished dark hue clay potted in tapered
the second two a pair of ovoid lobed shape bearing the impressed and lobed cylindrical shape incised to the sides in simple bird an flower
seals to the underside of the handles reading Song Xian. motifs; the fourth a miniature teapot of compressed globular shape
6 1/2 and 5 1/2in (16.5 and 14cm) width o er handles impressed to the underside to read possibly ba bei; the fifth of stylized
organic six-lobed petal-form, the underside bearing an impressed
$1,000 - 1,500 maker’s mark reading Ninghua Zhou zhi.
6in (15.2cm) width of last o er spout
興 四只
$1,000 - 1,500
Provenance:
Purchased 23 September 1999 at the Jiangsu Sheng Yixing Zisha 興 五只
Gongyi Er Chang. The receipt identifies the mark on the second pair
as that of a Fan Songxian. A teapot similar to the fifth, there described as ‘magnolia shaped’ and
bearing a Shi Dabin mark 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 3, p 123.

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