Mark sources cited
裴石民 · mark readings
裴石民 and 石民 are name seals associated with Pei Shimin. A full name on the base and a shorter name inside the lid are documented on a Palace Museum example; placement must still be checked on each pot.
On this page
Start with the reading
裴石民 / 石民
The two readings overlap exactly. Remove the surname 裴 from 裴石民 and 石民 remains. The Palace Museum pot documents how a full and shortened name can be divided between base and lid. The two Sihai pots marked 沈孝陸 and 孝陸 provide a comparison for this way of shortening a name. 狮球壶 · 112 (PDF 138) / 瓦头壶 · 114 (PDF 140)
A documented vessel
Teapot with an ox-snout-shaped lid fitting; the catalogue photographs 裴石民 and 石民 separately. Palace Museum no. 78 (p. 119) provides an additional object with the full-name base seal and short lid seal. Catalogue dates are not treated as a universal lifespan for these marks. [2] [3]
How far the evidence goes
The Hong Kong plate shows the two impressions side by side beneath the ox-snout teapot. Their order on the printed page tells us how to compare the names. For the position on the vessel, use the separate Palace Museum pot, whose catalogue identifies both surfaces. [2] [3]
An age in the inscription is not a universal date
Read the base and lid of the plain barrel-shaped pot described by Xu Xiutang together. He records 裴石民年七十六制 on the base, with 石民 and 七七老人 inside the lid. These are object-specific textual placements, not positions independently visible in a photograph here.
The base wording names Pei Shimin and the age seventy-six. Xu explicitly cautions that the same wording appears on other later works, so it does not mean that every object carrying it was made at seventy-six. Preserve the wording before drawing a chronological conclusion.
The cited page gives no accession or dimensions for this 素身圆桶壶. The next page illustrates a different 圆三足炉壶; its detached mark must not be substituted as photographic proof for the barrel pot or its lid companions. This example adds a documented reading and a limit to dating, not authentication of another vessel.
Sources and exact locations
- 徐秀棠，《中国紫砂》，上海古籍出版社，1998 / 2000. ISBN 7-5325-2335-7. p. 58; PDF page 89.
- 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. Catalogue 79, p. 192; PDF page 196. C81.284.
- 故宫博物院编，王健华主编，《你应该知道的200件宜兴紫砂》，紫禁城出版社，2007. ISBN 978-7-80047-648-8. Catalogue 78, p. 119; PDF page 122.
- 徐秀棠，《中国紫砂》，上海古籍出版社，1998年第一版，2000年第二次印刷 · 素身圆桶壶 · 184 (PDF 215)