a group of Three enamel decorated Yixing teapots


The first a polychrome decorated tall teapot of tapered rectangular shape decorated with roundels reserved against a sea foam colored ground, the underside impressed with a four character maker's mark possibly reading Danran Zhai Zhi; the second of square section, with branch-form handle, spout and finial decorated in green enamel, the underside impressed to read Yixing Zisha Minghu; the third a slip decorated compressed ovoid pot bearing an impressed Shao family maker's mark to the base (chips). 8in (20.3) height of first and tallest
|ProvenanceThe first and third: Luen Chai Curios Store, Hong Kong, 21 November 1983 as 18th centuryThe second: Nanning Wenwu Shangdian, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, 30 March 1981