A group of five yixing tea pots


The first made for the Thai market, potted from purple clay polished to a glossy finish, the underside centered by an elaborate maker's mark and suspended by a metal alloy handle; the second of compressed cylindrical form incised to the shoulder in a poetic inscription and bearing the signature Erquan, the underside bearing an impressed makers mark reading Shao Jingnan Zhi; the third of small ovoid form incised to the base with a poetic inscription and bearing a signature possibly reading Gao Pei zhi; the fourth of compressed lobed section surmounted by a stem-form lid; the fifth of larger ovoid shape mounted with a substantial metal-alloy handle, rim, and spout, the underside impressed to read possibly Yixing Zisha.6in (15.2cm) height of last and largest exclusive of handle
|For more detail about polished teapots like the first example in this lot, see the late Qing example sold as lot 295 in Bonhams' Hong Kong sale 19621 on 28 November 2011. For more information about Yixing pottery bearing the seals of Shao Jingnan or Erquan like the second vessel in this lot, see lot 592 from Bonhams' Hong Kong sale 20489 of 27 May 2012.