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高陽貢局 · mark readings
Turn the lid so that its vertical flange faces you. The four incised characters 高陽貢局 belong there; the separate base inscription is the shorter 孟臣.
On this page
Start with the reading
高陽貢局
Read the complete flange wording, including 高陽, rather than reducing it to 貢局. The contextual photograph and catalogue text both locate it outside the flange. On the underside, the photograph shows 孟臣 without a following 製. These are two separate inscriptions on one vessel.
A documented vessel
Jingxi Zhuni no. 230 is a hat-lidded red-clay pot catalogued as late Qing to early Republic. Its reported height is 7.5 cm and width 11.8 cm. Those are this specimen's measurements; the page does not define body height separately or supply capacity or a museum accession.
How far the evidence goes
The source explicitly leaves open whether 高陽 is a place-name or a commercial name. Preserve that uncertainty. 貢局 wording does not establish imperial supply, and 孟臣 does not prove Hui Mengchen's manufacture. The secure comparison is the longer flange inscription paired with the shorter base name. [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. · № 230 · 274 (PDF 276)