I-hsing ware, c. 1800
Hsu Shun-fangexpand_more
I-hsing stoneware with slip-painted décorexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more 2001.9a,b
Not on Viewexpand_more
The shape of this elegant teapot is unique to I-hsing pottery and is likely inspired by the square fang hu storage vessels of the Han dynasty (206 b.c.-a.d. 220). The teapot is decorated with a solitary fisherman standing on rocks from which trees grow next to a pavilion. There are mountains in the far distance. This pictorial scene of nature, undoubtedly inspired by ink landscape paintings, would have appealed directly to scholars who became the chief patrons of I-hsing ware during the early Ch'ing period. The recessed base bears an impressed six-character seal-script mark which reads "Made by Hsu Shun-fang of Ching-ch'i." Ching-ch'i is the old name for I-hsing, the famous kiln site in Kiangsu province that specialized in scholar's taste ceramics.
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- I-hsing ware
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- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2001.9a,b
- Curator Approved
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