A Chinese yixing 'fruit and nut' teapot, a 'fruit and nut' cup and a pair of enamelled yixing cups

The first is a ‘hundred fruit’ teapot shaped as an upside-down pomegranate and crafted with a water caltrop as handle and a lotus root as a spout, the shoulder is decorated with various seeds and nuts, and it stands on further seed and nut feet including a lotus root with articulated pods. The cover is shaped as mushroom. The second is a ‘hundred fruit’ similarly decorated and the interior glazed turquoise. The last is a pair of cups enamelled to the exterior with four characters and the interiors enamelled turquoise The largest, 17 cm. wide

Catalogue note: A similar ‘hundred fruit’ is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, accession number 1991.054.017 a,b