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靜安 · mark readings
Two teapots carry the same pair of seal readings. 靜安 is a shortened personal name. The catalogue supplies the surname 范 separately.
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Start with the reading
靜安 / 范莊農家
These are normalized character readings, not facsimiles of historical strokes. Slashes separate distinct inscriptions; they do not describe one combined stamp.
Keep the boundaries of the two impressions when transcribing them. The first reads 靜安. 范 belongs to the second reading, 范莊農家, even though the catalogue also supplies it in parentheses as the surname associated with 靜安. The close-ups let you compare the lettering on both vessels; the captions leave the precise positions open. [1]
A documented vessel
The round bamboo-motif pot C81.307 also bears an engraved inscription signed 跂陶, whom the catalogue identifies as 吳漢文. Its date 癸卯 is read as 1903. The plain conical pot C81.296 carries both seals and is catalogued to the early twentieth century. [1]
How far the evidence goes
Both plates show the impressions separately. The 1903 date belongs to the inscription on the first pot. The two vessels come from one collection, and their shared readings alone cannot establish that one stamp made both impressions.
Sources and exact locations
- The Art of the Yixing Potter: The K.S. Lo Collection, Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware. Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1990. ISBN 962-215-096-9. C81.307 · Catalogue 72 · p. 185 · PDF page 189 / C81.296 · Catalogue 73 · p. 186 · PDF page 190