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TWO YIXING FIGURAL TEAPOTS 8113
The first rendered as a sage seated beside a 8114
gnarled tree trunk forming the spout and handle
and supporting his separately potted inkstone
cleverly forming the vessel’s lid, the underside
bearing an impressed maker’s mark reading
Songhe Xuan Zhi; the second a peach-form ‘puzzle
pot’, the fruit resting upon the circular aperture
perforating the recessed base, separating the spout
and handle rendered as gnarled branches.
7 1/4in (18.4cm) length of first o er handle

$800 - 1,200

興只

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8113
A GROUP OF NINE YIXING POTTERY FRUIT,
NUTS AND SEEDS
Realistically rendered in numerous hues and slips,
comprising a water caltrop, a water chestnut,
a peanut, a sunflower seed, a watermelon seed,
a walnut, an arrowroot, a ginko seed, and a
tree chestnut.
3in (7.2cm) length of first and longest

$800 - 1,200

興雜 擺件九件

Lai and Bartholomew The Bei Shan Tang Legacy:
Yixing Zisha Stoneware [Beishan Jigu Yixing Zisha]
(Hong Kong, 2015) includes numerous similar
examples of molded pottery seeds and nuts, most
attributed to a variety of early 20th century renowned
Zisha ceramicists. See catalog entries 163-167
(pp. 402-411).

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8114
A GROUP OF FOUR YIXING
POTTERY DECORATIONS
The first a bowl for an opium pipe, colorfully
enameled to the exterior to depict the Hehe twins
lounging in a landscape, and bearing a wushen
date (equivalent to 1908) and a dedication to
the patrons of a Guangzhou pleasure house; the
second and third a pair of small pear-shaped
bird-feeders; the fourth a slightly larger bird-feeder
of peach-shape; together with a small clay pipe-
head potted in anthropomorphic subject matter of
possible Nati e American manufacture. [5]
2 1/4in (5.7cm) diameter of the first

$800 - 1,200

興擺件四件

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