Footnotes

• Zhu Kexin (1904-1986), alias Kai Zhang, is a famous contemporary Yixing stoneware master. He started as an apprentice at fifteen years old and by 1930, he was invited to teach at a school in Jiangsu. Two years later in the field he became a master potter and performed indepth research at other institutions. Zhu particularly liked floral motifs, applied motifs such as pine, bamboo and prunus on his teapots. His ox-shaped teapots are rare.
  
  朱可心款紫泥摻沙牛蓋蓮子壺
  
  「可心」
  「朱可心」
  
  壺扁圓筒身，短彎流，正耳吧，牛鼻形壺蓋，蓋內鈐「可心」篆文方印，淺圈足，足內外壁鈐「朱可心」篆文方印。壺全身素面，紫泥摻沙，泥色中見金黃色粗砂均勻分佈，如點點繁星，泥質精細，光滑瑩潤，造型工整。
  
  朱可心（1904 – 1986），原名凱長，近當代宜興紫砂名師，可心一名，取意「虛心者可師，壺中水清心」。朱氏15歲便從師紫砂名工汪昇義，民國十九年（1930年）受聘為江蘇省立宜興陶瓷職業學校指導員，兩年後受聘於宜興中學窯業科，任陶瓷技師。1954年，曾到中央美術學院華東分院（現中國美術學院）學習研究紫砂陶藝。朱可心擅長花貨造型，常以松、竹、梅為題材作茗壺，此牛蓋蓮子壺為其罕見作品。
  
  牛蓋蓮子壺為紫砂壺藝中傳統造型，參見本圖錄中另一間形制相同茗壺，拍品561。

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Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art

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