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Lot Essay
Cloisonné enamel teapots of this distinctive form and exceptional quality are extremely rare. Compare a closely related cloisonné enamel teapot and cover of identical shape, similarly decorated with bands enclosing scenes of a lotus pond with mandarin ducks, pine trees, plum blossoms, ruyi motifs, and plantain leaves on the bulbous body, formerly in the Springfield Museums collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 24 September 2021, lot 933.
This unique domed body form also appears in other media during the Qianlong period, such as porcelain and Yixing stoneware (zisha). See, for example, a famille rose porcelain teapot, missing its cover, inscribed with the imperial poem Three Purity Tea, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Important Chinese Art, 5 April 2017, lot 3628.
Two additional Yixing teapots of the same form, both bearing Qianlong imperial poems, are preserved in the imperial collection and published in The World of Tea, Volume II, compiled by the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2023, pp. 280–281, nos. 102-1 and 102-2.
This unique domed body form also appears in other media during the Qianlong period, such as porcelain and Yixing stoneware (zisha). See, for example, a famille rose porcelain teapot, missing its cover, inscribed with the imperial poem Three Purity Tea, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Important Chinese Art, 5 April 2017, lot 3628.
Two additional Yixing teapots of the same form, both bearing Qianlong imperial poems, are preserved in the imperial collection and published in The World of Tea, Volume II, compiled by the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2023, pp. 280–281, nos. 102-1 and 102-2.