Show Off Your Chinese Teaware (Page 2 of 5)

Hi William,
You have many good collections of teapot
I like the New pear-shaped pot and 8 cup Qing Yin Zhongguo Wulong Cha shui ping pot. Especially, the last second teapot you posted.

At the request of someone on the potsart forum (in this thread, I took a few more pictures of the pot at http://teadrunk.org/viewtopic.php?pid=347#p347
So, at the risk of boring everyone with more pics of the same pot, here they are. It does have a few of the little black spots (forget what these are properly called). Also, I'm curious what folks think of the work on the underside of the lid, which I've seen on a few of my pots - there are little concentric rings. If you click on the larger image of the third to the bottom and next to the bottom images below, you'll see what I'm talking about.

It's a fairly plain pot, but I think it is my favorite of the various auction pots I bought. I was hoping someone on the other forum might notice some dead giveaway that it was fake, but no one mentioned anything specifically.

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Yeah - I was curious if this said anything about the likely date (or method) of production.

Did you get to watch (or even video) much actual pot making in Yixing?

I am not sure about that.

I did get to see a bunch of people working on their pots. Many of the artists have their workshops (or at least a small work area) inside their tea pot shops so they can work whenever they have no customers. I was with someone who would constantly ask loud and stupid questions to the potters as they worked and also bump their arms and while they didn't seem to mind, this sort of behavior makes me very angry because I hate when people do this when I work on something. For this reason I couldn't enjoy watching most of the time. But I did get to see lots of parts of the process. I got to see hammering out of clay, spout being attached, lids at all different stages, and how to put Chops in all different parts of the pot. I think most people who put chops on the inside walls of their pot do it while the wall is still flat. My travel buddy tried to tell them how he would put the chop in there after the pot was completed. Some were receptive, some less.

Often it is impossible to watch a pot being made all the way through. Especially with handmade pots, certain parts of the pot are completed and then allowed to dry overnight before being completed.

Unfortunately I did not take any videos. I should have, I know. But hopefully there will be a next time.

Heartbreak averted. Picked up another zini shui ping at Tea Gallery yesterday. The imperfection seen on the bottom is the remnants of a sticker.

Care to enlighten those of us who can't read it? And from the parts you can see, can you tell what's on the body of the gaiwan itself?

Hexagonal / 6-sided (六方) hong ni 瓜形 texture pot, about 160 ml. These pictures don't really do the clay texture justice, so I'll try to take some better ones later. Natural light.

The story is simple in this poem. But I am afraid all poetic sense will be lost in my poor interpretation :-p
Here is what it says:
Titile: 问刘十九
Title: A question to Liu 19 (this person was called Liu 19 because his last name was Liu and he was the 19th son of his family)

绿蚁新醅酒，红泥小火炉。
Warmed on the little red clay stove, the newly made green wine is bubbling.

晚来天欲雪，能饮一杯无？
It's getting late and will snow soon. Would you please stay and have a cup of wine with me?

I see another poem that is a very popular one, 登鹳鹊楼 On top of the Stork-Magpie Building （ha, that's a weird building name)
白日依山尽，黄河入海流。
The white sun is setting off toward the mountains. Yellow River is running toward the ocean.

欲穷千里目， 更上一层楼。
Going up one more floor, you will have scene of a thousand miles in your eyes.

This is a poem in primary school textbook so everyone in China is supposed to know it :D

There seems a third poem on your gaiwan, but I can't tell what it is. Or it is the artist's signature? Since there may be no space for a third poem :D

LaoChaGui, I REALLY like your celadon teaware. Celadon-colored teaware is my favorite kind. I just got a handmade Celadon tea pitcher made from Dehua clay that I'll post in a few weeks.  I find it to be quite special and it makes tea taste smoother. 

Will, I didn't know you had so many pots.  The camel chop is so unique. 

Wes, your new pot that was aged in Factory 1 has a smell that I really like in my pots - great.  And you used it to drink my favorite tea - aged oolong.

Awesome stuff guys!

Got the cups and teapot from 'The Best Tea House'

They may have been pricey, but I didn't want to return empty handed from Hong Kong :p

I tried sipping water from several old and new cups, the old cups do impart smoothness and sweetness to water, as for the pot "yixing,china" chop 70/80's, it feels heavy and even (?) and raised already, there were other ones but I fancied this one most, just had to have it. I bought a porcelain cup holder plate, drip collector, waste bowl, tea boat, and another teapot   

I found out later that on the night I purchased my pots a Teachat member bought another pair of old cups which were offered to me just before he arrived, which were 400HKD cheaper than mine and larger too. I declined buying them because I hadn't done the water tasting yet, my cups were bought later on the last day of my trip (Sunday, April 19th).

There are a few stores that I later found out are run by the family of K.S. LO, late owner of Vitasoy Hong Kong and the donor of antique teapots for the flagstaff teapot/ware museum. I heard that a N.American tea store ordered a bunch of tea ware items from them recently, perhaps that's why I found nothing when looking for a certain tea boat for William.

Thanks a lot for the nice comment. I never noticed it before just now. The other think I noticed just now is that you promised to post your celadon, and its still not up! A little off topic, but I can't access your web log any more from China since your URL changed.

I have been thinking for a long time about going to Longquan (龙泉) which is the celadon capital of the world as far as I understand. I'd like to see more celadon up here, and maybe a thread about celadon from different areas if anyone has any expertise. (I don't ;)