A RARE CINNABAR LACQUERED YIXING 'BOYS' TEAPOT AND COVER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD | 清乾隆 紫砂剔紅榴開百子蓋壺

Property from the Kaisendo Museum

A RARE CINNABAR LACQUERED YIXING 'BOYS' TEAPOT AND COVER

QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

清乾隆 紫砂剔紅榴開百子蓋壺

the vessel modelled in the form of a pomegranate fruit, skilfully decorated with a gnarled branch forming the handle and extending across the vessel to issue as the spout, the exterior rendered with boys at play, some climbing on the branches, the waisted neck further decorated with a trompe l'oeil sash, the cover with globular finial, Japanese wood box

14.3 cm, 5 ⅝ in.