Tekanna med lock. Yixing-gods. Tidig Qing-dynasti.

TEKANNA med lock. Av rött Yixing stengods med tillverkarens Zheng Ninghou namn stämplat på bottens utsida. Den runda stämpeln står för förnamnet Zheng och den fyrkantiga för namnet Ninghou. Zheng Ninghou var en känd krukmakare under tidig Qingdynasti. Päronformig modell i sex pass, övre delen avskuren, bildande lock med rundad knopp, vari ett lufthål. Sexsidig böjd "svanhals" pip, och hänkel. Godset rödbrunt. Inköpt hos Ed. Kahlert 1891. Tea-pot, Yixing ware, with maker’s mark Zheng Ninghou. Early Qing dynasty. Circular seal Zheng (surname). Square seal Ninghou. Zheng Ninghou is a well-known early Qing dynasty maker. Looks very good quality. For a similar 'prunus' teapot by Zheng Ninghou in the Mottahedeh Collection, see Yixing Pottery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1981, p.22, pl.12. Zheng Ninghou is recorded as an early Qing dynasty Yixing potter who possessed great skills on both making teapots and writing calligraphy. In Yangxian shahu tukao, (A Pictorial Study of Yangxian Pottery Teapots), two other examples made by Zheng were recorded and attributed to the early Qing period (Li Jingkang, Zhang Hong, 1937:19). Yixing stoneware teapot with maker’s mark Zheng Ninghou Qing dynasty, 17th-18th century The teapot is thin-walled and finely potted, with faceted spout, lobed body in form of a flower, and knop in chrysanthemum bud shape. Inside it shows some signs of use, and has a single irregularly-cut perforation for the spout. A comparable vessel is preserved in the National Museum in Copenhagen, a sister piece with metal mounts being illustrated in a book on tea and tobacco by Simonis Paulli, personal doctor to the King of Denmark, in 1665. This teapot should be slightly later, for it bears a circular seal Zheng and a square seal Ninghou. Zheng Ninghou is a well-known early Qing dynasty maker. The teapot was bought from the German antique dealer Kahlert Eisenach in Berlin in 1891.