£1,875
Auction: 29 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
乾隆款 粉彩雨中烹茶詩文茶壺
one side of the globular body painted in a cartouche with an attendant cooking tea in a garden setting, and a scholar appreciating a scroll painting nearby, the other side adorned with an inscription, the rest of the teapot and cover fully painted with flower heads in medallion against a swirling ground in iron-red, the base inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Qianlong mark in underglaze blue
Provenance: formerly in a private Swiss collection, acquired in 1980s