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A GROUP OF EIGHT YIXING TEAPOTS AND COVERS K.S. Lo believes extant examples of gongju type teapots indicate
Qing Dynasty and later these pots were made between the early years of seventeenth
Including: a hexagonal buff clay pot moulded with a foliate rim, century and the middle of the eighteenth. The highly polished
flanked with an upturned spout and flanged loop handle, stamped surfaces and metal mounts were produced by specialised workshops
seal mark to base and inside of lid; a gongju-type polished pot with a in Bangkok, where the industry of polishing and mounting still
tapering straight spout and brass fittings; and an octagonal globular survives but is confined to pots made in Thailand (K.S. Lo, The
pot with an upturned spout and loop handle, the lid and base of the Stonewares of Yixing, from the Ming Period to the Present Day,
pot stamped. Sotheby’s Publications & Hong Kong University Press, London, New
The largest: 18cm (7 1/8in) wide (16). York, Hong Kong, 1998, pp.197-204).
£1,000 - 1,500 244
HK$10,000 - 16,000 AN ENAMELLED YIXING TEAPOT
CNY8,800 - 13,000 Stamped seal mark, 19th century
The tapering quatre-lobed body finely decorated with bright border
243 bands, with a central calligraphic passage reserved on blue, with an
AN YIXING BROWN CLAY ‘GONGJU’ TEAPOT AND COVER upturned spout and lugs to the shoulder.
Qing Dynasty 15.5cm (6 1/8in) high
The reddish-purple clay mixed with duanni shards, potted in a
compressed globular form rising from a lipped foot to a matching £800 - 1,200
lipped mouth, with brass, hinged, overhead handle, the base incised HK$8,300 - 12,000
gongju, the lid rim incised gaoyang, the surface polished overall to a CNY7,100 - 11,000
high sheen.
17cm (6 3/4in) wide (2).

£800 - 1,200
HK$8,300 - 12,000
CNY7,100 - 11,000

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