Gu Jingzhou's teapots

The teapots made by grand master, Gu Jingzhou, are hot items in auction houses. They fetch record prices during auctions as collectors bid fiercely to own a masterpiece from this teapot legend. In the world of Yixing teapots, only teapots by the renown potters make it to auctions. The bigger the name, the fiercest the bidding and then the record prices.

Teapot legend Gu Jingzhou at work

Here some of those teapots sold in the past years in auctions.