A RARE BLUE-GLAZED MOULDED 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' TEAPOT AND COVER

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A RARE BLUE-GLAZED MOULDED 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' TEAPOT AND COVER
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The teapot has a loop handle and a short spout and attractively moulded with a series of upright chrysanthemum petals around the shoulder and repeated inverted around the raised foot, itself formed as a chrysanthemum bloom, the concave base with the nianhao pencilled within a white medallion encircled by short double-edged petals, the cover similarly decorated with moulded petals and a pierced finial surrounded by double-edged petals, all covered in a deep blue glaze (minor chips to spout, crack re-stuck)
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

An identical Yongzheng-marked blue-glazed chrysanthemum-shaped teapot was offered in Hong Kong, 19 May 1982, lot 291. Other Yongzheng-marked teapots of this shape have been recorded: one covered in flambe glaze in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, 1989, p. 283, no. 112; and a robin's-egg-glazed example was offered in these Rooms, 27 April 1997, lot 727. A celadon-glazed teapot of this form with a Qianlong mark in the Robert Chang Collection, exhibited in Christie's London, 1993, see the Catalogue, no. 66, to be sold in these Rooms, 2 November 1999, lot 508.

(US$15,000-20,000)

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