Yang Fengnian
Look at the bamboo nodes and the shoot-shaped lid knob on the pot catalogued as Yang Fengnian’s work in the Yixing Ceramics Museum. The clay makes a plant into a working vessel; the catalogue attribution and the unseen seal require a different kind of looking.
Names and aliases
Traditional 楊鳳年Also written 杨氏 Yang Shi
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Start with one object
Gu Yue’s catalogue assigns the bamboo pot to Yang Fengnian, reports a height of 10.8 cm and describes a small round relief seal 杨氏 on the base (p. 95; PDF 104). Its side photograph shows the bamboo nodes and sprout knob, but cannot independently confirm the base. The mallow pot is a separate object, reported as 10.6 cm high (p. 97; PDF 106): that caption places 杨氏 below the handle, whereas the museum record cited below calls it a lid mark. Neither closed side view resolves the disagreement. These are catalogue attributions, not a newly authenticated signature; 杨氏 remains withheld from Marks.
Reading the evidence
The two catalogue objects invite different ways of looking. Follow the horizontal bamboo nodes on one, then the curling leaf structure of the mallow pot. Gu Yue assigns both to Yang Fengnian. Their photographs support a comparison of forms, while the written captions supply the maker attribution and reported seal positions.
Museum and excavated reference objects#
Bamboo-section pot 竹段壶
Gu Yue attributes this 10.8 cm pot to Yang Fengnian and describes a small round seal on its base, with the two characters 杨氏 raised in seal script. The plate shows the pot from the side. 95 (PDF 104)
Windblown mallow pot 风卷葵壶
Gu Yue places 杨氏 beneath the end of the handle. The Yixing Ceramics Museum’s record 18 instead describes a lid mark (盖印“杨氏”). Both sources give a height of 10.6 cm. The published photographs show the pot closed from the side, so the location of the impression remains unresolved. 97 (PDF 106) [4]
Active#
Gu Yue dates both illustrated pots to the Jiaqing reign. This catalogue dating locates the objects broadly in time. A precise span for Yang Fengnian’s working life is not established by these two entries.
Lineage#
Later biographies describe Yang Fengnian, Yang Pengnian and Yang Baonian as siblings. The two Yangshi pots discussed here do not independently establish that relationship. A shared surname on a vessel supplies less information than a documented genealogy.
Follow Yang Pengnian’s pot to distinguish making, studio identity and writing.
Sources#
- 徐秀棠、顾景舟《宜兴紫砂茶具概述》(1994)
- 陈宗懋 主编《中国茶叶大辞典》(2000)
- 古月编著，《紫砂壶图谱》
- 宜兴陶瓷博物馆 · 风卷葵壶
- 紫砂壶图谱 · 2011 · 95,97 · PDF104,106
Status and editorial notes sources cited
Sources are listed below. Their presence does not certify every claim; source-specific interpretations and unresolved questions are identified in the text. This page has not received independent expert approval.