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愷 / 愷長 · mark readings

Kǎi / Kǎicháng

Read the lid and base separately: the catalogue assigns 恺 to the lid and 恺长 to the base of this bamboo-drum pot.

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Start with the reading

愷 / 愷長

Normalized reading; not a facsimile of an impression.

The one-character impression and the two-character impression are shown separately. 恺 / 恺长 follows the catalogue’s simplified transcription; 愷 / 愷長 gives the traditional search forms. The slash separates two marks, not one combined seal.

A documented vessel

Xu Sihai’s 双线竹鼓壶 on printed p. 154 is 10 cm high and 19 cm wide. Its caption identifies the lid and base marks; the detached close-ups do not establish which face of the lid carries the impression.

许四海,《吾壶四海》,上海文化出版社,2009 · 双线竹鼓壶 · 154 (PDF 180)

How far the evidence goes

This is a different pot from the identically titled example on p. 42 (PDF 68), which carries 生义 / 万贡珍印. A repeated shape name does not make them one object. These readings establish the documented pairing, without identifying a full personal name or each person’s workshop role.

Sources and exact locations

  1. 许四海,《吾壶四海》,上海文化出版社,2009 · 双线竹鼓壶 · 154 (PDF 180)