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11 décembre 2021

A blue and white inscribed teapot, Jiaqing six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1796-1820)

 

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Lot 2902. A blue and white inscribed teapot, Jiaqing six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1796-1820); 8 1⁄8 in. (20.7 cm) across handle. Price realised HKD 750,000 (Estimate HKD 200,000-HKD 300,000). © Christie's 2021

The teapot is finely inscribed both sides with a poem and dated to the dingsi year of Jiaqing, corresponding to 1797, all framed by two shaped cartouches enclosed by scrolling lotus, with a band of stylised petals to the foot rim and a band of ruyi-heads to the shoulder.

ProvenanceSold at Christie's Hong Kong, 13 January 1987, lot 523
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 May 1995, lot 749 (part).

Note: The poem may be found on a small number of Jiaqing-period teapots and tea-trays, as it praises well-prepared tea.
S.W. Bushell translates the poem in Oriental Ceramic Art (London, 1981 (1896), p. 239) as:

'Finest tribute tea of the first picking
And a bright full moon prompt a line of verse.
A lively fire glows in the bamboo stove,
The water is boiling in the stone griddle,
Small bubbles rise like ears of fish or crab.
Of rare Ch'i-ch'iang tea, rolled in tiny balls,
One cup is enough to lighten the heart,
And dissipate the early winter chill.’

There are two lime-green-ground teapots inscribed with the same poem, one from the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, Taiwan, 1991, p. 216; and the other was sold at Sotheby's London, 6 December 1994, lot 212. Compare also a coral-ground teapot with the same poem, sold at Sotheby's London, 20 June 2001, lot 39; and a blue and white version sold Christie's London, 1 May 1995, lot 749. Liu also illustrates a lime-ground quatrefoil tray inscribed with the poem, ibid., p. 256.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 3 Dec 2021

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