AN IMPERIAL BEIJING ENAMEL MINIATURE TEAPOT

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AN IMPERIAL BEIJING ENAMEL MINIATURE TEAPOT
BLUE ENAMEL YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD
Finely enamelled on the compressed globular body with two scenes each containing four birds, pairs of finches, quails and geese in landscape settings, beside tree peonies, millet stalks and chrysanthemum sprays, reserved on a bright lemon-yellow ground with a scrolling peony meander, the sides with four further large peony flower-heads each containing a central bud, the rim with interlocking ruyi-head (tiny losses around base of spout and handle)
4 1/2in. (11.5 cm.) across handles, box

拍品專文

Cf. with a near identical teapot, possibly the pair to the present lot, from the Stephen Junkunc III Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 402.

The two scenes on the body painted in Guyuexuan-style compare well to the finest painting on Imperial porcelain from the Beijing Palace Workshops. The subject of geese by millet and reeds was much favoured at court. For an Imperial famille rose cup with blue-enamelled Yongzheng mark, decorated with three standing geese and one in flight amid ornamental rockwork, peonies and millet, now in the colleciton of the Chang Foundation, Taibei, see Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, The Ch'ing Dynasty, pl. LXXXIV, fig. 1A.

(US$13,000-20,000)