JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

A nearly identical teapot, exhibited at One Thousand Years of Jingdezhen, October 2006 to September 2007, Japan, see Catalogue, p. 72, no. 50. Compare to another green-ground Jiaqing-marked teapot of related form, design, and inscribed with an imperial poem, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Empty Vessels, Replenished Minds: The Culture, Practice and Art of Tea, Taipei, 2002, p. 190, no. 169. Further, compare a lime-green ground example with different handle and slightly slender in form, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3206.