A RARE YIXING TEAPOT AND COVER

QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

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A RARE YIXING TEAPOT AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Of a stylised melon form, the straight shoulder splaying to a flat base, the body divided into twenty segments repeated on the cover and its knob, the handle and spout imitating melon vine, inside the sunken ring foot engraved a four-character mark Zhou Haolin zhi 'Made by Zhou Haolin', the cover interior inscribed with two seals, Zhou and Haolin
5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) across, box

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Lot Essay

The melon form is fashioned after the naturalistic tradition by Yixing potters of the late 16th and early 17th century period. Compare a similar teapot with more rounded body dated 1609 by Shi Dabin, in the Avery Brundage Collection, illustrated in Yixing Pottery, Hong Kong Urban Council, 1981, p. 15, pl. 1.

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