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• Treasury 6, no. 1461
  
  紫砂刻銘文鼻煙壺
  何心舟，宜興，1836或1896年
  
  An inscribed stoneware snuff bottle
  
  ('The Mu Gong Jue')
  
  Sandy brown stoneware; with a flat lip, wide mouth, and flat foot; engraved on one main side with a rectangular cartouche containing a copy of the inscription from an ancient bronze vessel, 'Gong, son of the Mu family, cast [this jue] in commemoration of father Gui', preceded in clerical script by 'The Mu Gong jue', and followed, in a slightly cursive regular script, by 'Engraved by Xinzhou at the beginning of summer in the bingshen year'; the foot with one impressed seal of the artist, Xinzhou
  He Xinzhou, Yixing, 1836 or 1896
  Height: 5.42 cm
  Mouth/lip: 0.62/1.02
  Stopper: coral; turquoise finial, stained ivory collar
  
  Condition:minor surface patination from use; otherwise, in kiln condition
  
  Provenance:
  Galia Baylin
  Arthur Gadsby (1978)
  J & J Collection (2005)
  Christie's, New York, 30 March 2005, lot 83
  
  Published:
  Stevens 1976, no. 342
  Moss, Graham, and Tsang 1993, no. 259
  Asian Art, October 2003, p. 16, fig. 3
  Treasury 6, no. 1461
  
  Exhibited:
  Christie's New York, 1993
  Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
  Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996–1997
  Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
  Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
  Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
  National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
  International Asian Art Fair, SeventhRegiment Armory, New York, 2003
  Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003
  
  Commentary
  The subject is a Song dynasty copy of an inscription taken found on an ancient bronze vessel called a jue.It had appeared in a collection of inscriptions published by Ruan Yuan (1764–1849) in 1804 and again in 1879. Ruan Yuan and theoriginal Song dynasty recorder of the ancient inscription did not agree on how to read the characters (see Ruan Yuan 1937, juan5, p. 279), so the translation given in the caption above is in a sense arbitrary. In any case, on the snuff bottle Ruan Yuan's name for the vessel is given in clerical script on the right side of the ancient inscription; the inscription is followed on the left by "Engraved by Xinzhou at the beginning of summer in the bingshen year"; the foot is also impressed with a seal bearing the artist's name, Xinzhou.Thedate is best interpreted as corresponding to 1896, for we are surely dealing with the Yixing potter He Xinzhou, who is known to have worked with the calligrapher Mei Tiaoding, who lived 1839–1906. See Zhang Fangtong 2009, pp. 58 – 62.
  
  紫砂刻銘文鼻煙壺
  
  紫砂胎，平唇，寬口，平底，一正面刻古青銅器銘﹕"木［禾］父子工癸"，前刻"木工爵"隸題，後加"丙申初夏心舟刻"，底壓印"心舟"篆印
  何心舟，宜興，1836 或 1896年
  高：5.42 厘米
  口經/唇經：0.62/1.02
  蓋： 珊瑚; 綠松石 頂飾, 著色象牙 座
  
  狀態敘述： 經過歲月的觸摸以後，表面加了一點色澤; 此外，出窯狀態
  
  來源：
  Galia Baylin
  Arthur Gadsby (1978)
  J & J Collection (2005)
  Christie's, New York, 30 March 2005, 拍賣品號 83
  
  文獻：
  Stevens 1976, 編號 342
  Moss, Graham, and Tsang 1993, 編號 259
  Asian Art, October 2003, p. 16, fig. 3
  Treasury 6, 編號 1461
  
  展覽：
  Christie's New York, 1993
  Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
  Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996–1997
  Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
  Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
  Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
  National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
  International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
  Poly Art Museum，北京，2003
  
  說明：
  此壺的圖案依傍阮元 (1764–1849) 《積古齋鐘鼎彝器款識》（1804、1879）卷五周爵下一條，阮注曰 ﹕"右木工爵銘五字，據宋王氏款識本摹入。復齋云∶'器今在祕書省。'案木舊釋作禾，今審定當為木。木工官名也。" (阮元 1937, 卷 5, 頁 279)。
  
  心舟肯定是宜興陶匠何心舟，何心舟生卒年不明，但是他與書法家梅調鼎（1839–1906）在1898年左右聯袂作茗壺, 見 章放童2009，頁58 – 62。
  

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