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石楳仿製 / 石楳 · mark readings

Shíméi fǎngzhì / Shíméi

On this well-railing-shaped water container, 石楳 closes the body inscription; the catalogue places 石楳仿製 on the bottom.

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Start with the reading

石楳仿製 / 石楳

Normalized reading; not a facsimile of an impression.

Keep 楳, with 木 and 某, in the reading. 仿製 expresses making after a model. The square impression is pictured separately; its base location comes from the text. The shorter 石楳 signature is visible on the body photograph.

A documented vessel

Bartholomew’s no. 59, lent by Alice Boney, is a scholar’s water container, not a documented tea-serving vessel. The catalogue gives height 3.6 cm, width 7.9 cm and an early-nineteenth-century date.

Terese Tse Bartholomew, I-Hsing Ware (1977) · 59 · 84–85 (PDF 86–87)

How far the evidence goes

The catalogue identifies Shimei with Zhu Jian. Treat this as its attribution. The body copies a historic well-railing inscription dated 811: that date belongs to the model, not the ceramic object. Neither the name nor 仿製 identifies every hand involved in making or engraving this vessel.

Sources and exact locations

  1. Terese Tse Bartholomew, I-Hsing Ware (1977) · 59 · 84–85 (PDF 86–87)