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玉香齋 · mark readings
Look for a vertical line of three incised characters, 玉香齋, on the base of this small pear-shaped pot. The catalogue supplies the location; its enlargement shows the lettering separately.
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Start with the reading
玉香齋
Read downward as 玉, 香, 齋: Yuxiang Zhai. 齋 is a studio-name ending. These are incised characters, not an impressed seal. The wording does not by itself identify a potter or the address of a workshop. [1]
A documented vessel
The 1994 catalogue records plate 105, accession C86.54, as a Nanking Cargo export pot of about 1750, height 6 cm and width 11 cm. Its essay specifies the base inscription. The same accession appears in the 1990 catalogue, no. 105, p. 218 (PDF 222): another publication of this pot, not another specimen.
How far the evidence goes
The essay calls the form a small Mengchen teapot. It does not record a second 孟臣 inscription on this object, and the form-name does not prove manufacture by Hui Mengchen. Keep the three characters, the catalogue provenance and the maker question separate. [1]
Sources and exact locations
- Yixing Purple Clay Wares, Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1994 · Plate 105 · C86.54 · 154 (PDF 160); 31 (PDF 37)
- The Art of the Yixing Potter, Hong Kong, 1990 · № 105 · C86.54 · 218 (PDF 222)