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Default Chinese inscription on a Yixing pot - help needed

Hi,
there are some characters scratched into the bottom of my favorite
Yixing pot.
Could anybody tell me what they mean ?
(I have a small digital pic of that inscription, just in case).

TIA,
Karsten [N 53°13' - E 7°46']

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Its usually a 4-character set written in old "bird" script and consists of
name of the master or/and the name of the factory/studio. In some cases
words "zisha, China" are used. Knowing normal (brush (stroke)-based) script
does not help much and bird script dictionaries are rare and lack
systematic graphic search system. Despite the fact that "bird" script makes
much more sense graphically and logically than the stroke-based, its usage
is mostly confines to chops.
If you send me the pic, I may be able to help.

Sasha.


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Hi,
there are some characters scratched into the bottom of my favorite
Yixing pot.
Could anybody tell me what they mean ?
(I have a small digital pic of that inscription, just in case).

TIA,
Karsten [N 53°13' - E 7°46']


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