TWO YIXING STONEWARE TEAPOTS AND COVERS
QING DYNASTY, JIAQING AND DAOGUANG MARK, 19TH CENTURY
清 嘉慶款及年代 宜興朱泥素面梨形小茶壺 及 道光款及年代 宜興朱泥詩文梨形茶壺each elegantly potted with tapering sides rising to a domed cover, the stoneware of a rich red colour applied with a glossy stained slip, one teapot of plain sides with its base impressed with four-character Jiaqing mark within a double square, the other teapot inscribed with a poetic verse around the shoulder and plant-shape finial on the cover has its base impressed with a four-character Daoguang mark within a double square (2)
10.2cm and 11cm wide 
A closely related teapot from the Qing court collection, of similar form and clay colour, with similar impressed Jiaqing mark is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Yixing Zisha Wares in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2009, p.111, pl.51 (fig.1). Two comparable teapots with Jiaqing mark were sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 253 and Christie's Paris, 23 Jun 2020, lot 170.