Footnotes

• 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.
  
  清 朱泥小壺三件
  
  「煙村四五家。孟臣」楷書款
  「荊溪惠孟臣製」篆文方印、「水平」楷書款
  「玉川以伴吟。孟臣」楷書款、「水平」楷書款
  
  三把小壺均以朱泥作胎，其中一壺扁圓身，直口，短直流，圈足，壺底鈐款「煙村四五家。孟臣」；一壺扁身，平足，足底刻款「荊溪惠孟臣製」，蓋內鈐「水平」二字；另一壺成小宮燈式，二彎流，壺底鈐「玉川以伴吟。孟臣」，壺蓋內鈐「水平」楷書二字。
  
  惠孟臣，一說明天啟、崇禎年間宜興壺手，一說孟為清康熙、雍正間人，其生卒不詳。羅桂祥曾論述：「惠孟臣，江蘇宜興人，於天啟、崇禎年間至十七世紀後半葉尤其活躍，其所製梨形小壺名震海內外，十九世紀後被其後裔和學徒大量仿製。」。羅桂祥認為，惠孟臣早年親手所致小壺，多用竹刀刻「孟臣」楷書款，而鈐「荊溪惠孟臣製」篆文方印的茶壺，應為其學徒後期所仿製。詳見K.S.Lo，《The Stoneware of Yixing》,香港，1986年，頁76 - 78。
  
  

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