Early Qing Dynasty and later|Comprising: a yellow-metal-mounted miniature teapot and cover with polished surface, the base with a pictorial mark, the interior of the lid incised 'Shui Ping'; two 'gongju'-type teapots, the first mounted in white metal to foot, rim and spout, potted from a dark brown clay and with polished surface, incised to the base with 'Gong Ju', to the lid with 'Shui Ping', the second, on three small globular feet, with incised seal mark to base and interior of the lid; a copper or brass-mounted teapot also of dark brown clay with polished surfaces; together with a reddish-brown clay bell-shaped teapot and cover, the base with pictorial mark.|The largest: 15.5cm (6 1/8in) wide (10).|Provenance: The brass-mounted teapot with overhead handle, purchased from Robert Barley Antiques, Fulham High Street, London, on 15 September 1984 (receipt).The yellow metal-mounted teapot acquired from Sotheby&co. on 24th July 1973, lot 311 (receipt).K.S.Lo believes extant examples of 'gongju' type teapots indicate these pots were made between the early years of seventeenth century and the middle of the eighteenth. The highly polished surfaces and metal mounts were produced by specialised workshops in Bangkok, where the industry of polishing and mounting still survives but is confined to pots made in Thailand (K. S. Lo, The Stonewares of Yixing, from the Ming Period to the Present Day, Sotheby's Publications & Hong Kong University Press, London, New York, Hong Kong, 1998, pp.197-204).