The city of Yixing has a pottery-making history of more than 2,400 years, with the Yixing purple clay teapot being the most famous one. Just like that you'd like to pick out several pieces of ...

Appraisal: Chinese Yixing Clay Teapot, ca. 1840 from Portland, Hour 1.

Object Details Artist Spurious seal of spurious seal of Chen Mingyuan (active late 17th-early 18th century) Description Small tea-pot of yellow-gray unglazed Yixing clay. Inscription of fifteen ...

Object Details Artist False seal of Gong Chun (active ca. 1506-1521) Description Teapot with cover. Body: dark reddish brown clay, fired hard. Glaze: none. Decoration: plum branches with blossoms, ...

China Yixing purple clay pot maker Li Ming (son of Chinese art and craft master Li Changhong) said: “The dragon and phoenix on this royal enamel teapot are very lifelike.

View A BAMBOO-FORM YIXING TEAPOT AND COVER By Lu Wenxia; BAMBOO; 3 1/2 x 7 3/4 x 4 1/4in (8.9 x 19.7 x 10.8cm) (2); Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on ...

But the purple clay reserves have been nearly depleted by the teapot making. Therefore, the Yixing government prohibited further clay quarrying in 2005.