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Subject:Is this a cup or a jar? Chinese or Japanese?
Posted By: Olive Mon, Feb 08, 2016 IP: 199.59.106.195
I have a questions about this piece and hope someone can help me. Is this a jar to hold things or it a tea cup? The writing is very strange looking perhaps cursive? Thank you for your help.







Subject:Re: Is this a cup or a jar? Chinese or Japanese?
Posted By: Martin Michels Thu, Feb 11, 2016
Hi Olive,

My best guess: it's a Japanese cup, the characters on the 3rd photo seem to spell 西仙 = Nishisen. It had been helpful if you had written of which material this cup is made and what the height is.
Regards,
Martin.

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Subject:Re: Is this a cup or a jar? Chinese or Japanese?
Posted By: Olive Sat, Feb 13, 2016
Thank you for your help. Ir is a pottery cup.

Subject:Re: Is this a cup or a jar? Chinese or Japanese?
Posted By: pipane Sat, Feb 13, 2016
Material looks like zisha tea cup, it is type of clay from Yixing (宜兴) in Zhejiang province in China, the most famous production center for tea pot in China. Cursive script on the cup body is not regular cursive script (thus difficult to read). The seal mark near foot ring reads (yunxian 云仙). May be a particular workshop in the area.

Not Old. But modern Yixing zhisha utensils are renowned all over the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yixing_clay

http://m.baidu.com/from=1269a/bd_page_type=1/ssid=0/uid=0/pu=usm%400%2Csz%401320_1004%2Cta%40iphone_2_4.4_11_1.0/baiduid=72D717B9628F81D7BB533EC4E5DC51C2/w=0_10_yixing+yunxian/t=iphone/l=3/tc?ref=www_iphone&lid=4196802138779666323&order=10&vit=osres&tj=www_normal_10_0_10_title&m=8&srd=1&cltj=cloud_title&dict=30&title=YixingPurpleClayTeapots%2CTerebessAsiaOnline%28...&sec=10083&di=5dcef92d4c7b051a&bdenc=1&tch=124.380.58.1592.3.1327&nsrc=IlPT2AEptyoA_yixCFOxXnANedT62v3IEh3DMCxVASn5pVjyqRLaHd2mWyD82Sm5CkzlvWy2sw2NhCn8

Best regards,
P.

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