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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).
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).