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Nov 30, 2010
 Teapots
by: Anonymous

Hi John,

I don't know if this is of any help, but I found a Chinese website which lists Yixing master artisans from the Ming dynasty to the present. Of course, this is only a part of them, as probably many of the earlier ones are not known anymore.

However, the website is in Chinese. If you are interested to have a look, you could use the Google Chrome browser or Google translation tool to view it. The translations are sometimes difficult to understand, though. But you are unlikely to find much better information in English, I am afraid.

The links to the name lists are on the right site of the home page at "gys.zisha123.com".

peter
Nov 15, 2010
 marks
by: peter

Hi John,
The marks indeed look as if they are impressed in Zisha clay from Yixing.

Unfortunately, I cannot help you with the marks at this time. I'm myself looking for a source of such.
I remember having once seen a page on the Internet presenting some yixing potter's marks in English, but cannot find it anymore despite searching repeatedly.
If I find it I will put the information up on the Yixing pottery page of this site.

The problem is that Yixing pottery bears the mark of the artisan, and there are hundreds at any one time. Usually, any such list shows only recent or current potters for a decade or so, and without marks.
Part of the marks you uploaded are purely pictorial, and the other two have highly modified seal stamp characters, so that it is virtually impossible to read them.

So, at this time I only can tell you that Yixing teapot marks often are marks made with the chop of the potter who made it, but there are others also. Some marks just say Yixing Zisha, and sometimes you can have two marks on the same pot, or on the pot and the lid.

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