A CHINESE YIXING OPENWORK TEAPOT AND COVER

18TH CENTURY

Modelled as eight gathered stems of bamboo, with reticulated bamboo leaves within each segment, the spout, handle and finial modelled as further smaller segments of bamboo, unmarked, 15.8cm. (2)

Cf. The Art of the Yixing Potter, The K.S Lo Collection, Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, p.145, no.28 for a comparable 18th century example.