An Yixing 'Three Friends of Winter' teapot and cover


Late Qing DynastyOf dark brown clay, the hexagonal vessel with pine trunk handle and finial, and bamboo spout, with applied prunus flowerheads and bamboo and pine leaves. 16cm (6 1/4in) wide (2).
|See a similar teapot, also dated Late Qing Dynasty, illustrated by Wang Jianhua (ed.), Zisha Wares, Collections of the Palace Museums, The Forbidden City Publishing House, Beijing, 2010, p. 127, no. 86.