Description: A CHINESE YIXING TEAPOT AND COVER. Signed Shao Renyuan. The rounded sides carved as a gnarled trunk, with the loop handle emerging as a branch with applied plum blossom extending from it over the body, the spout as a bamboo stem with attendant leafy bamboo branches applied to the body, the cover surmounted with a well modelled ox seated with the head raised, four character Shao Renyuan zhi mark to base, 12.5cm H, 19cm wide. (2) 宜興紫砂蓋壺，「邵任遠製」款 Notes: Asian Art