Early Qing Dynasty and later|Comprising: a duanni teapot with overhead handle applied with trailing peonies in green and duanni clay, painted red to the flowerheads; a hexagonal duanni teapot and cover with metal replacement spout, with painted designs; a purple clay 'squirrel and grapevine' teapot and cover, with elaborate applied decoration in purple, green and duanni clay; and a duanni circular brushpot with applied purple clay chilong dragons.|The tallest: 12.8cm (5in) high (6).|Provenance: the duanni teapot with overhead handle purchased at Sotheby's, Thorseby Hall, 1 June 1989, lot 840, where part of a lot of six (label and collector's notes).The squirrel and grapevine teapot purchased from Lorenz John on 15 May 1988 (collector's notes).The brushpot also purchased from Lorenz John on 4 February 1986 (collector's notes).For similar teapots to the painted and applied duanni teapots in this lot, see Bonhams Hong Kong, Yixing Stoneware & Scholar's Objects from Private Collections, 27 May 2012, lot 504. Vessels of similar modelling to the duanni and purple brushpot were offered in the same sale, lot 531.