A group of seven Chinese Yixing teapots

The group comprises: a small undecorated red-clay teapot, the base is stamped with a ‘Xu Long minghu’ mark; a teapot decorated with applique prunus, the underside of the cover is stamped with a mark; an undecorated brown-clay teapot, the base and underside of the cover is stamped ‘He Meng taozhi’; two ‘dragon and cloud’ teapots, the covers with a moveable dragon head, one stamped ‘Sun Qinya’，the other marked ‘Wang Chunhua’; a tapering square-section teapot incised with a fruit to one side and a poetic inscription to the other, signed Li Quan, the underside of the cover stamped ‘Gan Cheng’, and the base is stamped; and a rectangular section teapot shaped as a bamboo box, both sides with a poetic inscription, and the base and underside of the cover are stamped.

The red-clay teapot: 13.5 wide, 8 cm. high The prunus teapot: 19.5 cm. wide, 9 cm. high The brown-clay teapot: 13 cm. wide, 7.2 cm. high The smaller dragon and cloud teapot: 17 cm. wide, 10 cm. high The larger dragon and cloud teapot: 19 cm. wide, 11.5 cm. high The square-section teapot: 16.2 cm. wide, 11 cm. high The bamboo-shaped teapot: 13.5 cm. wide, 11 cm. high