Show Off Your Chinese Teaware (Page 4 of 5)

New pot (from Hou De in Houston). Please address any discussion here.

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I've lurked around here for a while, picking up some very useful information for buying yixing. Well, I finally have something "worth" showing on this thread...

From http://www.nadacha.co.uk/, a 80 ml Zi Ni Long Dan, made with clay from the early 90s, IIRC. Pour is medium-slow, but it's worth dealing with

From http://houdeasianart.com/, a 100 ml Sand Blended Zhu Ni, from the late 70s/early 80s, IIRC. It has very thick walls, and a very thick base as well. I'm going to be using it with medium/light roast yancha. The blended sand, which increases porosity (?), should round out some of the roast while preserving most of the tea's flavor/aroma. Chop is fairly interesting as well...maybe chrl42 will have something to say about it

2 pots are very pretty, and 2nd pot looks Zhuni + Hongni

its stamp (deer) I have the similar one, bottom circle lines indicate its trimmed by bamboo tool but it could also be of potter-wheel, inside pics are more important

Got a new yixing today, and only reaffirmed how much I want to learn Chinese, as it came with what I think is a Cert of Authenticity book/catalog of the artists works.  I assume it is directly tied to the artists as at least tree of the chops on my pot match up with the chops showin in the back of the book.

It is supposedly Zhu ni clay, but I think we all know how a lot of things claim to be zhu ni clay.

Fairly new tealover and teaware collector from Denmark checking in.

Two 70s/80s Yi Xing pots. Both have got the very generic chop; 中國宜興' (Yi Xing China). The lighter/larger of the two has a fairly loose fitting lid and no filter in the spout, the darker/smaller has a tighter lid and a filter in the spout. Both were found at a fleamarket

A larger "bamboo" Yi Xing. The pot and the lid seems to be diffrent qualities - though the lid does fit perfectly. If anybody could translate the writing and/or say anything abou the chop I would be very grateful. This pot is a fleamarket found aswell

New Yi Xing. I'll post more pics. of this one later

Big "export" Yi Xing. Has been in my girlfriends family for many years

Copies of Song Dynasti cups

My Gong Fu setup for raw puerh

I'll post pics. of the rest of my collection soon.

Regards.

Jakob

Factory-1 Nian-Gao-Tu (cake clay) Shui Ping

This clay first appeared during 6~70's, is very delicately-processed Hongni (100-hole sieve) mixed with zisha. First invented to use for slip-casting, but FAILED (like other Yixing clays), then potters made with left-over clay in 70~early-80's.

First, it wasn't welcomed by collectors for its darker color, then many started to like for its killing-seasoning ability, now it became one of Factory-1 'legendary' clays.

I ordered via Taiwan (it's so hard to find early-period pot in Beijing!), now the review goes,

This clay, very dense and heavy, almost like Zhuni, I brewed Yancha in it, not bad but won't say equivalent to Zhuni, there is this milky aftertaste finishing, at least in my sense. Yet touching is incredible with tea towel when seasoning. This clay is one of few Factory-1 clays that are all-around player for brewing, and that might be why the Taiwanese like this clay so much as there are heavy followers of Oolong in Taiwan.

this is how nian gao tu turns out when seasoned

looks like Ju Lun Zhu exported to Japan, late-Qing~early-ROC had many of that stuffs.

I found a pewter tea boat in a style I've been looking for for quite a while on Taobao. It took quite a while to actually obtain it. Unfortunately, when it arrived, the thing was more damaged than the photos had made obvious. There were quite a few dents and leaks, and I found out later that there had been some bad JB-Weld style repairs done to it also.

Here are some of the original auction photos:

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On a recommendation from a friend, I tried taking it to a local silver shop (Vroman's Silver in Monrovia, California). The guy there was very helpful, though didn't realize at first that it needed to be water tight. They had to clean it in order to do the repairs, and they did quite a lot of work on truing the edges and repairing the bottom, as well as fixing all the leaks. The shop had the tea reservoir for a couple months, and I finally got it back recently. Will try to take some shots in better light if I get a chance.

And some close-ups of some of the repairs:

Rather cool looking.  How much liquid (volume) can it comfortably hold?  The problem I always run into is the reservoirs always get filled too quickly and I have do to an awkward walk to a sink to empty it.

This is my favorite type of clay...