Asian Art II - 23rd May 2012

Lot 766

Two Chinese Yixing tea kettles

Estimate £500 - £1,000 | Hammer £1400

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Description

Two Chinese Yixing tea kettles, one decorated with calligraphy and flowers, the other enamelled with roundels of figures on a blue ground, minor damages, 13cm. (4) Provenance: from the collection of John and Helen Bargolini. Both with paper labels, exhibited Hoghton Tower, Exhibition of Chinese Tea Ware, Yixing Purple Clay, nos.22 and 38.