Three Chinese Yixing teapots and a Yixing brush pot

The hexagonal teapot is modelled with a c-shaped handle and a curved spout. The melon-shaped teapot and liner is modelled with a straight spout and a C-shaped handle and rope-twist decorated flat cover; the base is stamped in relief with a seal mark reading 'Yixing zhen zisha minghu'. The cylindrical teapot is decorated with a double spout suspending a loose-ring handle, the upper surface is moulded with the Eight Trigrams, bagua, and the finial of the cover is decorated with a qilin, the base is marked 'Bai ling shan guan'. The slightly waisted brush pot is left undecorated, the base is stamped with a 'Tiehua xuan zhi' seal mark to the base.

Catalogue notes: The yixing craft shop Tiehua Xuan was established in Shanghai around 1900 and employed several pottery masters and hence was renowned for producing high quality wares which continues to this day.https://www.artimin.net/artiweb/artikelen/detail/30857/