Early Qing Dynasty|Each of octalobed form with cylindrical inner wall, potted from respectively reddish-brown and dark brown clay, each lobe carved in openwork to the exterior with medallions of leafy bamboo, the lid with further openwork leafy bamboos, the handle, spout and finial modelled as sections of bamboo.|Each: 15cm (5 7/8in) wide (4).|Provenance: the dark brown teapot purchased at auction, unknown house, location and date, lot 399 (label).Teapots of this reticulated 'bamboo' form were popular in the early Qing dynasty, when they were modelled from various types and hues of clay.Similar teapots were sold by Sotheby's, 14 May 2014, lot 400, and by Woolley and Wallis, 16 May 2017, lot 221 and 20 May 2015, lot 66, where potted in lighter clay. A teapot of this same form is also illustrated in The Art of the Yixing Potter, The K.S Lo Collection, Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, p.145, no.28.