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Pei Shimin

Péi Shímín

Pei Shimin (1892–1976) made Yixing teapots and small naturalistic objects, and also worked on restorations. A replacement lid attributed to him on a Gongchun tree-burl pot offers a useful lesson: different parts of one museum object can have different histories.

Names and aliases

Also written 裴庆生 Pei Qingsheng (original name)Also written 德铭 Deming (zi)

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Documented work#

  • In 1930 the collector Chu Nanqiang invited Pei Shimin to Suzhou to craft a matching bark-textured lid for the lidless Gongchun tree-burl pot (供春树瘿壶) now in the National Museum of China, and to create a companion 'Pine-Trunk Pot' (松段壶). Pei's signature Five-Bat Peach Teapot (五蝠蟠桃壶) and Three-Legged Ding Teapot (三足传炉壶) are held by the Yixing Ceramics Museum.2

Museum and excavated reference objects#

Museum / ExcavationReference objectSources
National Museum of China (中国国家博物馆), BeijingMatched replacement lid crafted in 1930 for the Gongchun tree-burl zisha teapot (供春树瘿壶配盖), inscribed round the rim by Huang Binhong2
Yixing Ceramics Museum (宜兴陶瓷博物馆), JiangsuFive-Bat Peach zisha teapot (五蝠蟠桃壶), height 10.2 cm, mouth diameter 5.8 cm; peach-shaped body in red-purple clay with peach-branch handle and spout, five small red-clay bats, and a miniature peach lid knob2

Life dates#

1892–1976. Born 1892 in Dingshu, Yixing, died 1976; worked in Shanghai in the 1920s–1930s for collectors including Chu Nanqiang and Jiang Hongzhai, and joined the Yixing Zisha Craft Factory in 1955 as one of the Seven Senior Masters.2

Documented titles#

  • One of the Seven Senior Craft Masters of Yixing Zisha (紫砂七老, 1956)

Lineage#

RelationPersonNoteSources
teacher: apprenticed to his brother-in-law Jiang Zuchen (江祖臣)江祖臣 Jiang Zuchen—2

Related#

Wares

Yixing ware

Makers

GongchunChen MingyuanGu Jingzhou

Sources#

  1. 徐秀棠、顾景舟《宜兴紫砂茶具概述》(1994)淑馨出版社 (Shuxin Publishing House, Taipei) · scholarship · Accessed 2026-11-04
  2. 陈宗懋 主编《中国茶叶大辞典》(2000)中国轻工业出版社 (China Light Industry Press) · Reference works · Accessed 2026-11-04
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