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福記 · mark readings
Compare the lower handles of these two pots: both carry 福記. Turn to their bases and each has the longer 荊溪惠孟臣製 impression. The pairing repeats on two distinct vessels.
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Start with the reading
福記
Read the short handle stamp as Fuji, preserving 記 after 福. The six-character base wording is Jingxi Hui Mengchen zhi, a separate making claim. Contextual photographs show the handle surfaces and the edges of the bases, so the two locations are not inferred from detached seal crops.
A documented vessel
Jingxi Zhuni nos. 247 and 248 are both called 福記款朱泥水平壺 and catalogued as early Republic. Each is recorded as height 5.2 cm, width 9.8 cm, but their profiles and photographs are distinct. Equal titles and dimensions do not make them the same specimen. No accession numbers are supplied.
How far the evidence goes
The repeated pairing is valuable evidence for comparing labels, not proof that Hui Mengchen made either pot. The catalogue recounts commercial and family histories with differing accounts. Keep those narratives separate from what the photographs establish: a short handle mark paired with a full base inscription on each documented object. [1]
Sources and exact locations
- 黃健亮、黃怡嘉，《荊溪朱泥：明清宜興朱泥壺研究》，盈記唐人工藝出版社，2010. ISBN 978-957-0499-19-3. · № 247 · 291 (PDF 293); № 248 · 292 (PDF 294)