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陳次偉 · mark readings
Look among the grape vines beside the cup’s handle. A square seal there reads 陳次偉, Chen Ciwei.
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Start with the reading
陳次偉
陳 is the surname and 次偉 the given name in the catalogue’s transcription. The characters are raised seal script. The close-up preserves the surrounding grape relief and handle area, allowing the exterior-body placement to be checked against the description.
A documented vessel
Bartholomew’s I-Hsing Ware, no. 44, illustrates a squirrel-and-grape cup lent by Alice Boney. The description is on p. 68 and the vessel and mark detail on p. 69. It records height 6.4 cm and length 12.5 cm; no accession number is supplied.
How far the evidence goes
The catalogue assigns a seventeenth–eighteenth-century date on stylistic grounds. It reports an earlier suggestion that Chen Ciwei was another name for Chen Mingyuan, but explicitly finds no textual basis for that equation. Keep the two identities separate: a resemblance in workmanship is not enough to turn this mark into a Mingyuan signature. [1]
Sources and exact locations
- Terese Tse Bartholomew, I-Hsing Ware, China Institute in America, 1977. · № 44 · 68–69 (PDF 70–71)