Lot 78

[DRINKING CULTURE] CHINESE YIXING STONEWARE HEXAGONAL 'WINDOW' TEAPOT WITH COVER

QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

Fine Asian Works of Art

Auction: 06 November 2026 from 10:00 GMT

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Description

清康熙宜興紫砂白泥地鏤空「萬字窗欞」六角茶壺帶鏤空蟋蟀竹葉紋蓋

each side of the teapot decorated with reticulated panels resembling traditional Chinese window with four swastika pattern, attached with straight spout and loop handle of bamboo form, the shoulder finely adorned with leafy lappets in low relief, the openworked cover finely carved with crickets perching on bamboo leaves, surmounted by a bamboo-form finial, the stoneware in rich brown colour

Dimensions

20cm wide

Provenance

Formerly in David Battie's Collection, with a paper label reading ‘D&S Battie Collection, CHC 13’;

Exhibited: China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental Ceramic Society Members, London, November 2016;

Published: China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental Ceramic Society Members, edited by Regina Krahl, Cambridge, UK: Oriental Ceramic Society, catalogue no. 13, p. 38 (with label).

David Battie舊藏，帶藏家標籤'D&S Battie 收藏, 編號CHC 13';

展覽：倫敦陶瓷學會，《龍隱：東方陶瓷學會會員稀珍藏品展》，2016 年11 月;

出版：康蕊君編，東方陶瓷學會，《龍隱：東方陶瓷學會會員稀珍藏品展》，英國劍橋，2016 年，編號 13, 頁38（帶展覽標籤）。

Footnote

David Battie is a respected authority in the world of Asian art and a longstanding figure on the BBC Antiques Roadshow. With an eye honed by decades of scholarship, connoisseurship, and passion, Battie has assembled a collection that showcases the rich cultural dialogues between China and Japan through porcelain, stoneware, and earthenware. From the elegant restraint of Song dynasty monochromes to the vibrant decoration of Ming and Qing export wares. A comparable Yixing ‘three friends of winter' teapot and cover, Kangxi period, comparable in reticulated decoration, was sold at Christie's London, 6 November 2019, lot 89.