A RARE YIXING ‘BAMBOO’ TEAPOT
A RARE YIXING ‘BAMBOO’ TEAPOT
A RARE YIXING ‘BAMBOO’ TEAPOT
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A RARE YIXING ‘BAMBOO’ TEAPOT

CHEN YINQIAN MARK, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE YIXING ‘BAMBOO’ TEAPOT
CHEN YINQIAN MARK, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
8 1⁄4 in. (21 cm.) high, box
Provenance
Acquired in Asia, 1997

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Lot Essay

The teapot is of oval body moulded to simulate bamboo at the mid-section, flanked by a bamboo-form spout and a twisted double bamboo handle at the top, all raised on a short foot ring. The cover is decorated with two sprays of bamboo leaves on either side of a twisted double-bamboo finial.

Chen Yinqian, dates unknown, was a Yixing potter active during the mid-Qianlong period. A nearly identical Yixing teapot and cover of the same design is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection no.: guci006545N (fig. 1), which has accumulated a beautiful patina from years of use, possibly by the Qianlong Emperor himself. Another similar bamboo-form teapot bearing the same artist mark, with a concave base, is in the collection of Nanjing Museum.

Compare further to a very similarly-shaped Qianlong example bearing the same mark, covered in mottled robin’s egg enamel, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2024, lot 2897 (fig. 2).

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