A Chinese Yixing green with brown-clay 'lotus & butterfly' teapot

Reference: ART1002940

The teapot is crisply modelled as a blossoming peony flower encased in green-clay leaves, with the stamen executed in pale yellow clay. The cover is surmounted by a finial shaped as a butterfly. The teapot is marked under the handle and under the cover with a seal mark reading 'Jiang Rong'.