A polychrome Yixing 'lotus' teapot and cover 20th century

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Description

in the form of a large lotus pod with pale brown seeds, supported on lotus root and water chestnut stands, the cover surmounted by a toad, the stone of an attractive greyish blue colour

Provenance

Shuisongshi Shanfang Collection.

Catalogue Note

Compare a similar teapot from the K.S. Lo Collection, illustrated in Yixing Purple Clay Wares, Hong Kong, 1986, pl. 96, and one in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Lai Suk Yee and Terese Bartholomew, Themes and Variations: The Zisha Pottery of Chen Mingyuan, Hong Kong, 1997, pl. 50.