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雲根 / 吳雲根製 · mark readings
Follow the upright handle down to the square-bodied pot, then distinguish its two named marks. The book places 云根 inside the lid and the fuller 吴云根制 on the base.
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Start with the reading
雲根 / 吳雲根製
云根 reads Yungen; 吴云根制 adds the surname Wu and 制, the making claim. The source describes a square base stamp with raised seal-script characters. These are the book’s transcriptions: the closed-pot photograph does not let us independently read either mark. [1]
A documented vessel
Gu Yue records the 提梁弧棱壶 as a modern work by Wu Yungen in the Yixing Zisha Craft Factory display room, height 14.1 cm. No accession or plate number is supplied. The exact positions appear in the description following the photograph, not in underside or open-lid views.
How far the evidence goes
Xu Xiutang also describes a 提梁觚菱壶 with this pairing on p. 186 (PDF 217). The passages may refer to the same collection object through earlier literature; they are not two independent specimens. The photograph on Xu’s page shows a different loop-handled vessel and must not be used as a view of this overhead-handled pot. [1]
Sources and exact locations
- 古月编著，《紫砂壶图谱》，湖南美术出版社，2011年3月第一版. ISBN 978-7-5356-4241-7 · 提梁弧棱壶 · 124–125 (PDF 133–134)
- 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 · 186 (PDF 217)