Chinese Yixing Zisha Clay Handmade Exquisite Teapot（梅花仿古 底款：金鼎商标）

Product Name: Antique plum blossom
Bottom payment: Jinding trademark
Cover: Guilin
Size: 19 / 10cm
Capacity: 500cc
Purple sand classification: raw ore block mud
Introduction to the bottom payment: Wu Desheng purple sand pottery shop was set up by Wu Hanwen in the fifth year of the Republic of China (1916). The store is located at the side of Jiaoqiao in Yixing county. In the early period, the seal was used as a small square seal of "Wu Desheng" Yang Wenshu, and the bottom cover was used together. Later, it was printed as "made by Wu Desheng" in Yangwen. In the middle period, the seal was used as a large circle, and the Yangwen script was used as a "Wu Desheng system" and "Yixing Wu Desheng system". In the late 1920s, the owner Jinding trademark, Wu Hanwen founded the famous trademark "Jinding trademark" of "Wu Desheng". The printing of "Jinding trademark" takes the tripod as the pattern in the center, and the four corners are the "Jinding trademark" in regular script in Yangwen, which is the special printing for the pot ordering of "Wu Desheng" shop number. In the later period, Wu Hanwen also sealed the refined pot with the square seal "Songhe Xuan" in regular script in Yangwen. The seals of "Wu Desheng" and "Jinding trademark" are stamped on the bottom of the pot, and the lid is usually stamped with the small square seal of the maker. At that time, Yan Ru, Chu Yinlan, Wang Xichen, Feng Guilin, etc. specially made purple sand tea pots for Wu Desheng. Ren Ganting, an artist specially engraved for Wu Desheng, and Yu Guoliang, Cheng ShouZhen, Zhu Kexin, Wang Baogen, Wu yungen, Wang Yinchun, etc. often ordered the blanks. In the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), Wu Hanwen opened a branch of "Wu Desheng" in Shanghai, mainly selling purple sand products. The teapot made by Wu Hanwen himself also used "Wu Desheng" in the early period. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, "Wu 222. Kequn Desheng" closed down, and the printing of "Wu Desheng" and "Jinding Caixun trademark" continued until the end of 1939