Lot 92
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AN YIXING 'HUNDRED-FRUIT' TEAPOT AND COVER
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AN YIXING `HUNDRED-FRUIT' TEAPOT AND COVER

SIGNED GE ZHENGXIANG, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN YIXING 'HUNDRED-FRUIT' TEAPOT AND COVER
SIGNED GE ZHENGXIANG, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The globular teapot is modelled in the form of a pomegranate applied with fruits and nuts. It has a water-chestnut-form handle and a lotus shoot-form spout that is impressed with two seals. The cover is fashioned as a mushroom. The teapot is incised with poetic inscriptions in kaishu eulogising the pomegranate and other fruits. The base is impressed with the seal marks 'Jiangxi' and 'Xiaoxiang'. The stoneware is of a speckled beige-brown colour.
4 ½ in. (11.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Yixing Stoneware from the Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Hawthorn Collection; Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 203.
Property from a Princely Collection.
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Lot Essay

The potter Ge Zhengxiang was recorded as a native of Yixing who produced teapots and bowls during the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods (1736-1820).

The current lot may be compared to an Yixing stoneware teapot also applied with fruits and nuts and dated to the Qianlong period in the Qing court collection, and illustrated in Yixing Zisha Wares in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2009, p. 87, pl. 27.

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