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如記 · mark readings
Look low on the handle for a narrow oval impression reading 如記. The base bears the much longer 香在蘭居味似茶 / 孟臣製. The catalogue identifies this particular pot as Chaozhou ware.
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Start with the reading
如記
Read the two handle characters as 如 and 記. The contextual detail retains the handle, so its position can be checked directly. The base writing is impressed in a rectangular arrangement. Keep the small handle mark with its base companion rather than recording 孟臣 alone.
A documented vessel
Jingxi Zhuni no. 190, 孟臣款潮州朱泥壺, is dated late Qing by the catalogue, with height 5.2 cm and width 10.8 cm. Its description and component photographs document the two placements. No collection accession is given on the cited page.
How far the evidence goes
This example shows why a familiar name cannot settle origin or authorship. 孟臣製 is wording on the object; it does not make a catalogue-identified Chaozhou pot a Yixing product or establish Hui Mengchen’s own manufacture. 如記 is securely recorded here, but the cited evidence does not identify an individual maker behind it. [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. · № 190 · 234 (PDF 236)