Theepot - Yixing - Klei - Mark Hui Mengchen

A miniature Yixing teapot, the bottom with impressed seal mark ‘Hui Mengchen’ .
China, 20th century.
The high quality teapot of compressed globular shape supporting a domical lid, the thin curved handle opposing a straight tapered cylindrical spout.
Height 5.5 cm, width with spout and handle 9.5 cm, diameter body 6 cm.
Condition:
Very good, no damages.
About Hui Mengchen and its marks:
Hui Mengchen was a native of Yixing, whose small pear-shaped teapots deeply influenced his descendants and later potters up to the nineteenth century. K.S. Lo believed that pear-shaped teapots with a plain body, of which the base was carefully carved with inscriptions in kaishu style were of early products made by Hui Mengchen himself. Whereas teapots with only a rectangular seal in six characters written in zhuanshu were made by his descendants during the mid-nineteenth century or later, see K.S.Lo, The Stoneware of Yixing, Hong Kong, 1986, pp.76-78.
The design of this teapot first appeared in the 16th century, during the Ming dynasty. The potter was a famous Yixing native known as Hui Mengchen. Hui had a long creative life, for he seemed to have flourished from the Tianqi/Chongzhen (last 2 Ming emperors) until the last quarter of the 17th century (well into the Qing period).
He is well known for his pear-shaped teapots, which exerted great influence on latter potters, both at home and abroad. For this particular shape, so elegant and pleasing to the eye, is capable of many modifications which inspire the imaginative potter. After Mengchen's pots had been exported to Europe in the later 17th century, examples became known to English silversmiths, who based on this shape created what is today known as the Queen Anne silver tea set. This in turn served as a model for other European silversmiths to follow. That is the reason why today you will see Englishmen/westerners brew their English tea in pots closely resembling the tradition Bahkut teh teapots, the only difference is that the teapots for English tea are larger in size and with a white glaze.
The business which Hui started was continued by his descendants up to the 19th century. These teapots have the words made by Jingxi (Yixing's old name) Hui Mengchen inscribed at the bottom of the pots.
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