Rich Oaks Sale
Picked up some items on sale:
Used Japanese grafting knife
Sifted small akadama, roughly 8 qts
Stamped cream feminine, lipped rectangular pot, unglazed
Production Chinese glazed cream lipped rectangular pot
Roughly $190 in pots, $50 knife, and $100 for a very large and old maple.
And a lovely stone.
尚小堂, which can be transliterated as "Shang Xiao Tang", 艺平制品 translate to "Yiping products".
新君製壺 (Xīn Jūn Zhì Hú), which translates to "Xinjun Pot Making"
"Gu Jing" (顾景). This likely refers to Gu Jingzhou (1915-1996), a highly renowned master of Yixing pottery.
Sweet yellow (gan huang), Qianlong reign period mark.
Likely from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, often found on imperial yellow jade hanging vases (heting you) or Yixing teapots.
20th–21st century Yixing workshop production.
