A rare inscribed blue and white and famille-rose 'landscape' teapot and cover, Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th century

The present teapot is particularly remarkable in its masterful combination of blue-and-white scrollwork with famille-rose decoration. For a related group of imperial teapots combining painted cartouches, poems and floral scrollwork, compare a number of Qianlong mark and period examples rendered entirely in famille-rose enamels, including one sold in these rooms, 13th-14th September 2016, lot 261; and another illustrated in Julian Thompson, The Alan Chuang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, pl. 113, sold thrice in our Hong Kong rooms, most recently 8th October 2019, lot 3608. Compare also a third famille-rose teapot, decorated with an outdoor pavilion scene and inscription surrounded by feathery iron-red scrolls and scattered flower heads, from the Qing Court Collection (accession no. gu 00154836) preserved in Beijing, published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 108. No other teapot of this period combining famille-rose enamels and underglaze blue appears to have come to market in recent years. For a very closely related example of this form with similar decoration rendered entirely in underglaze blue, compare the Qianlong Emperor’s famous ‘Mount Hui Temple’ teapot, sold in these rooms, 22nd September 2021, lot 76.