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Provenance Unidentified Tokyo dealer (possibly Mayuyama or Kochukyo), 1961
Private Collection
Christies, New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 19 September 2006, lot 118
Shuisongshi Shanfang Collection

Shen Cunzhou (沈存周, active 17th century), zi Luyong (鷺雝), hao Zhuju (竹居), was a native of Jiaxing, a major city on the
Grand Canal near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He was a recognized artist in pewter as well as a poet and a versatile
calligrapher. His refined pewter objects for the scholar’s studio, wine vessels and tea wares were especially renowned for
their innovative design, elegant form, and inclusion of poetic inscriptions, classic texts, signatures and seals incised in a
variety of calligraphic styles which rivaled works by respected calligraphers and seal carvers of his time.
Three inscribed pewter vessels by Shen Cunzhou included in the exhibition organized by the Museum and Art Gallery of
the University of Hong Kong, also shown at the China Institute Gallery, China Institute of America, New York, are published
in the catalogue by Soong, Tea, Wine and Poetry: Qing Dynasty Literati and Their Drinking Vessels, Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 46-
51: no. 4, Melon Shape Water Dropper, dated 1656; no. 5, Lotus Shape Wine Ewer, dated 1657; and no. 6, Wine Ewer with
Overhead Handle, dated 1661.

十七世紀 沈存周製 錫詩文茶罐一對 高 9 厘米
「心曠神怡」「獨樂園」詩文 「沈存周製」款 「存」「周」印
「芝蘭之味」「陋室銘」詩文 「竹居主人」款 「竹居」印
底銘「春日行近山」「綠蔭亭」詩文 「竹居」印
來源 東京商行 ( 繭山龍泉堂或壺中居 )，1961
私人收藏
紐約佳士得 2006 年 9 月 19 日，拍品第 118 號
水松石山房藏