Qing Dynasty|Comprising: a very large dark brown clay teapot and cover, the baluster body enamelled in bright tones with a tree-dotted landscape; a large dark brown clay teapot of oval section with bamboo-shaped handle, enamelled with floral designs, the lid as a three-legged toad, metal replacement spout; and a purple clay cylindrical teapot and cover, with overhead handle, also decorated with floral designs, the base with four character seal mark possibly reading [Jiang Zhen Yi(?) Zao], the cover with impressed seal mark [Yixing Zisha]; together with a red clay teapot marked [Yixing Zisha] to base, and encased in a reticulated pewter cage with a design of dragons.|The largest: 23cm (9in) wide. (8).|Provenance: the oval teapot acquired on 11 February 1984 from P.H. Ng (collector's note).A teapot and warmer enamelled in the same style as the dark brown teapots was sold by Woolley and Wallis, Asian Art II - 15 Nov 2012, lot 605.An identical teapot to that with toad finial is illustrated by K.S. Lo, The Stonewares of Yixing, from the Ming Period to the Present Day, Sotheby's Publications and Hong Kong University Press, London, Hong Kong and New York, 1998, p.206, pl. 126.