Message #42679

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

Dear Kevin,
 
     I'm sorry I must have accidentally deleted these few lines:
About 10 years ago I gave almost all of the scholarly objects to my goddaughter Sophie, in the UK. Including the water droppers and brush washers, at least 2 of which had painted vines like on Kevin's piece.

    The way the stem crosses the thicker branch on your vessel, is almost identical to the painting on these, and the dark on lighter colouration under thin clear glaze, and the unglazed foot, showing the coarse pottery, also are almost identical.

   Zisha or Yixing clay, has a MUCH finer texture.
But I still say that your piece looks very tempting to hold.

Best,
Joey

Dear Joey
Where have you been? If you have scholarly objects from Japan painted in Yixing grapevine patterns, I would love to see them   Last week
Thank you for your posts
Best
Kevin