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高朋滿座 · mark readings
A pear-shaped red-clay teapot carries a greeting on its base. 高朋滿座 evokes a room filled with honoured guests. A second, smaller mark reads 香, meaning fragrance.
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Start with the reading
高朋滿座 / 香
These are normalized character readings, not facsimiles of historical strokes. Slashes separate distinct inscriptions; they do not describe one combined stamp.
Read 高朋 as “honoured guests” and 滿座 as “all seats filled”. The base carries the whole greeting. The leaf-shaped impression on the handle contains just 香. When comparing the two pots, follow that single character from the handle of no. 94 to the area below the handle of no. 110. [1]
A documented vessel
The catalogue describes a square positive-relief 高朋滿座 seal on the base and a leaf-shaped 香 seal on the handle. The plate shows the pot and details of its marks. The pot is 7.5 cm high and 13.6 cm wide. [1]
Pot 110 provides a second example of 香. The catalogue locates the impression below the handle and illustrates it there. [1]
How far the evidence goes
The authors assign this pot to the Qianlong period. They give no excavation context on this plate and identify no individual behind the single character 香.
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。ISBN 978-957-0499-19-3. Catalogue 94 · p. 138 · PDF page 140 · No. 110 · p. 154 (PDF 156)