LATE 19TH CENTURY AND LATER

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THREE UNUSUAL YIXING VESSELS
LATE 19TH CENTURY AND LATER
One a teapot of melon form, applied with a gnarled vine that forms the handle, spout and knop on the cover and continues around the sides which are decorated in relief with leaves, a flower and a grasshopper, base and cover with impressed maker's marks; the second a teapot of rounded cylindrical form, carved on one side with two large characters and a ten-character inscription, with a hollow square tube rising from the base on the interior, the flat cover with a corresponding square aperture with molded rim surrounded by four characters in relief, and with the maker's seal mark, He Xinzhou, impressed on the underside; the third a winepot with lobed body below a tall waisted neck and with slender handle and upright spout, the cover with pierced knob finial, traces of gilding
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) tall; 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) wide; 5½ in. (14 cm.) high (3)

Provenance

Cylindrical teapot: Warren E. Cox & Associates, New York.

Lot Essay

He Xinzhou was active in the 1880s and 1890s and was known as a skilled calligrapher who preferred beige-colored clay.
Compare the winepot to a ewer with lobed body and similar handle and spout illustrated in K. S. Lo Collection in the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, Part 2, Hong Kong, 1984, p. 135, no. 123.

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