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蘇萬茂 · mark readings
Look underneath this late Qing metal tea caddy. The Palace Museum catalogue transcribes the three-character base mark as 苏万茂.
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Start with the reading
蘇萬茂
The supplementary plate shows the complete underside above a view of the standing caddy. The outline establishes which part is pictured. The impression is faint in this reproduction, so the three characters follow the catalogue transcription.
A documented vessel
锡制海棠式錾花茶叶筒 · Supplementary fig. 8 · p. 152 (PDF 155)
How far the evidence goes
Compare the lids of tea caddies 90–93 in the same book. Those lids name teas. Here a name is struck into the metal base. The wording alone cannot assign the shaping, chasing and finishing of the caddy to one person. [1]
Sources and exact locations
- 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. Supplementary fig. 8 · p. 152 (PDF 155) · No. 90–93 · 131–136 (PDF 134–139).