TWO YIXING STONEWARE TEAPOTS
19TH-20TH CENTURY
十九至二十世紀 潤記等款 宜興紫砂茶壺（共兩件）one teapot of trapezoid-form with angled looped handle, one side moulded with sixteen script-style characters, the underside of the cover stamped with ‘Run Ji’ mark, the base with a six-character ‘Yi Xing Zi Sha Ming Hu’ mark in square; the other teapot of melon form, one side incised with blossoming prunus on branches, the other side inscribed and dated to Gengwu year, corresponding to 1930, the cover with a fu-dog finial, the base with a four-character mark
16.2cm and 19.5cm wide 
Private English collection, Brighton; one teapot purchased from The Union Trading Co. (合成行), Hong Kong on 23 May, 1998, with an original receipt stating that the teapot is dated to the Qing dynasty, Daoguang period; the other purchased from the same as above, on 1 March 1995, with an original receipt stating that the teapot is dated to the Qing dynasty, Tongzhi period.