A CHINESE INSCRIBED PEWTER-ENCASED YIXING TEAPOT AND COVER

QING DYNASTY

The coin-shaped body, set with an angular jade handle, the flat pewter cover with a square jade knop, one side incised with a spray of blossoming orchid, and a poem about tea drinking to the reverse, inscribed by Zi Yun, a seal mark reading Shi De Tang to the interior, 14cm. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Christopher Blair-Myers Esq.