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Ceramics
Yixing Stoneware
Yixing Pottery from the Monterey Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Museum Funds; Acquired by the Museum in 1993
Lot 8100
Two Yixing pottery vessels Tiehua Xuan studios
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$1,625 inc. premium
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Two Yixing pottery vessels
Tiehua Xuan studios
The first, of light sandy hue potted in irregularly globular section, incised to the sides in a branch of prunus blossoms opposed by a poetic inscription bearing the makers' mark Tiehua Xuan ke; the second of darker hue, potted in tall tapered cylindrical section, the sides incised in a fancifully archaistic Jiaping wu nian date (equivalent to 253 or 412CE) and bearing an inscribed signature reading Tiehua Xuan Zhuren Bing Ke, the underside bearing an impressed makers mark reading Fangxue Shan Ren.
5 5/8 and 8 3/8in (14.3 and 21.3cm) high
The first, of light sandy hue potted in irregularly globular section, incised to the sides in a branch of prunus blossoms opposed by a poetic inscription bearing the makers' mark Tiehua Xuan ke; the second of darker hue, potted in tall tapered cylindrical section, the sides incised in a fancifully archaistic Jiaping wu nian date (equivalent to 253 or 412CE) and bearing an inscribed signature reading Tiehua Xuan Zhuren Bing Ke, the underside bearing an impressed makers mark reading Fangxue Shan Ren.
5 5/8 and 8 3/8in (14.3 and 21.3cm) high
Footnotes
宜興罐兩只 「鐵畫軒」刻款
For more information on the Tiehua Xuan see Bartholomew, et al. The Art of the Yixing Potter: The K.S. Lo Collection, Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware (Hong Kong: The Urban Council, 1990), pp 51-52, 65-66. She attributes the 'Fang Xue Shanren' maker's mark to Jiang Yanting (active early 20th century) and provides an illustration of one of his vessels incised in similarly rendered archaistic calligraphy to the second vessel in the present lot (fig. 14).
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