A group of four 'Yixing' teapots and covers Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th Century

each of varying tones of reddish-brown, the first in the form of clustered stalks of bamboo, with similarly formed handle and spout; the second inscribed around the compressed body below the curving spout; the third one with complex T-form bridge handle; and the last one of globular form with V-form handle; together with an unusual Japanese stoneware bottle vase imitating 'Yixing' ware, applied with the 'Three Friends' below auspicious emblems to the neck (5)

Some: Chase Galleries, Chicago.

'Bamboo' teapot:
Geoffrey Hedley, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society, vol. 13 (1936), pl. 37e.