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AN INSCRIBED DOCUMENTARY the official residence of Chen Mansheng at Liyang 清 陳曼生式、楊彭年及郭頻迦款宜興扁石壺
MANSHENG-TYPE YIXING in the autumn of Jiaqing yihai year (1815) and 「彭年」「阿曼陀室」印
STONEWARE TEAPOT AND COVER the names of the fifteen literati who attended.
QING DYNASTY, SIGNED YANG The shoulder is also inscribed with an elegant 題識：
PENGNIAN AND GUO PINJIA inscription in bronze seal script. 茗商第一千三百七十九頻迦識。嘉慶乙亥秋月
The fifteen literati listed in attendance at the 桑連理館製。
exquisitely potted of rich reddish-brown party were: Jiang Tingxiang; Qian Shumei; Niu
stoneware, the facetted compressed globular Feishi; Zhang Laojiang; Lu Xiaofu; Zhu Litang; 江聽香、錢叔美、鈕非石、張老薑、盧小鳧、
body set with a curved spout and a loop handle Zhang Shengya; Shi Xinluo; Gao Xiquan; Shi 朱理堂、張殅厓、施辛蘿、高犀泉、釋嬾堂、
at the angled shoulders, the raised flat cover Lantang; Gao Wuzhuang; Miu Langfu; Sun 高午莊、繆朗夫、孫仲疋、沈春蘿、陸星卿同
surmounted by a semi-circular loop knop, Zhongpi; Shen Chunluo and Lu Xingqing. It is 品定并記。
inscribed on the exterior in ancient script with an likely that a number of commemorative teapots
inscription reading ‘Shutao made this hu vessel to were made, possibly for all those who attended 夷陶作壺其永寶用
be treasured and used forever’ and dated Jiaqing the party, and others are recorded, including an
yihai year (in accordance with 1815), the base of identical teapot from the collection of K.S. Lo,
the handle impressed with a square seal reading included in the exhibition I-Hsing Ware, China
Pengnian, the base impressed with a square seal House Gallery, New York, 1977, cat. no. 17, and
reading Amantuoshi illustrated in K.S. Lo, Yixing: From the Ming
16.7 cm, 6⅝ in. Period to the Present Day, Hong Kong, 1986, p.
64, pl. XXX1, and discussed on p.107, where the
HK$ 300,000-500,000
US$ 38,400-64,000 author extols the sheer level of importance in the
inscriptions, a ‘who’s who of scholars and artists
of the period’, and notes how Guo Lin (Guo Pinjia)
This is one of a series of teapots of documentary
importance in encapsulating the literati approach demonstrated his skill by carving the archaic
to teapot appreciation in the early 19th century. bronze-style inscription on the shoulder of the
teapot in dazhuang script Shutao zuo hu qi yong
The extensive inscription intricately incised
in kaishu records that the piece was made to bao yong (‘Shutao made this hu vessel to be
commemorate a literati tea-tasting party that treasured and used forever’).
took place at the Hall of Interlocking Mulberry,

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