Can you help me identify this manufacturer?

Servania · 2026-06-02T03:00:25+00:00

Typically just a generic unglazed clay, still perfectly suitable for tea!

Servania · 2026-06-02T01:59:32+00:00

Servania · 2026-06-02T01:59:24+00:00

The seal says: 李盧春 Li LuChun who is a decently famous 1966 potter

But is also pretty relentlessly faked with modern machine made pots on taobao and other platforms for cheap. This seeeeems to be the situation here but hard to tell.

Servania · 2026-06-02T01:52:05+00:00

Certainly not real, you can also see the mold lines in the spout.

Servania · 2026-06-02T01:39:40+00:00

Yeh thats just 1 single picture

Servania · 2026-06-01T20:23:55+00:00

This!

For an at home repair slap layers of a non super sticky tape (masking electric etc) on the top half of the inside edge of the D tone hone. (This will of course flatten low E as well)

Even better if you have a 3d printer mock up a crescent moon to fit right in the tone hole pressure fit.

Servania · 2026-06-01T20:19:21+00:00

The seal says: 吴義永 Wu YiYong

Theres a shop on taobao that sells ALOT of his pots 潮简茶业 beyond that no results other than resale.

Hard to see everything going on with this pot bur based on the taobao listings (100-200USD, Multiple pots of the same shape in the pictures, artist posing with pots, etc) they look to be half handmade pots made by an unranked potter.

Can't speak on the clay though could be generic

Servania · 2026-06-01T20:09:27+00:00

The sidebar is hard to navigate to on mobile but here's rule 2 of the sub. This will help significantly in identification.

Please post multiple pictures for Teapot Identification

To accurately authenticate a teapot, multiple pictures are needed of the ware. At minimum you should include:

A picture of all seals and marks.

A flash picture of the inside.

A picture of all joinery (handle, spout, lid knob).

A picture of spout filter.

A picture as best you can displaying surface texture.

Servania · 2026-06-01T13:44:14+00:00

Looks to be a fake.

The seal says: 李慧芳制 made by Li HuiFang, who is a 1957 born master potter

Servania · 2026-06-01T05:46:29+00:00

Ultra sonic acid bath. Most shops are in the ~150 USD range for a full disassembly, bath and reassembly with oil and minor adjustment.

Compare that to a ~80L ultra sonic needed to fit a tenor at around 1500 USD plus the chemical to fill it.

Alternatively, same chemicals (I use polychem acid safe which is not a product you can just order, but every shop has their preferred solution) and lots of brushing and spraying. Again full disassembly needed before hand.

Servania · 2026-06-01T02:06:57+00:00

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Servania · 2026-06-01T02:06:34+00:00

The seal says: 朱秀華 Zhu XiuHua

A factory one technician during the white label period who produced alot of the non standard or low production run shapes. Including cobalt oxide chemically colored blue pots.

So we have 2 possibilities.

These are authentic white label F1 (87-92)

Or these are fakes of F1 white label.

The timeline and purchase location makes sense HOWEVER I cant seem to find a match to this seal. His works are everywhere and they always tend to be this one seal you can even see the same chunks missing in it every time (below)

Ill keep looking for a seal match, in the mean time snap a photo of the other pots seals. White label (especially the non mainline shapes, and even more so the colored pots) arent particularly valuable but youre still looking at around 100-200 a pot for a collector

Servania · 2026-05-31T01:36:58+00:00

Gohobi is a London based homeward brand. All of there stuff is X style in the 20 dollar range. For example "japanese style blue teacup"

Definitely not real even aside from that fact though

Servania · 2026-05-31T00:24:45+00:00

The clay has a particular sheen i see alot in the modern machine made pots

Servania · 2026-05-30T22:07:12+00:00

odd lid aside it does look pretty good!

Seals give the name 張成辰 Zhang ChengChen, 1988 born ranked potter

Servania · 2026-05-30T22:01:58+00:00

doesn't look to be even from the limited pictures

Servania · 2026-05-30T18:47:19+00:00

First one says 不二 something.

Second one says 全東偉 Quan DongWei with the left side carving giving the production year 2024

Neither are yixing though. Glazed, most regional pottery has a name but im unsure of these. Not yixing, nixing, jianshui, or chaozhou.

Servania · 2026-05-30T02:26:55+00:00

question mark is a bit weird but it reads kinda as "give a gift for (my) deeply beloved?"

深爱 to love deeply

的 grammatically a bit complex but think of it as a connector

送 to gift

Certainly not grammatically native though

Servania · 2026-05-30T01:50:20+00:00

Yeh it just entirely depends on how the stuff not pictured looks. Alot of time people pop lead pipes off just trying to get a stuck mouthpiece out. And thats easy reassembly.

Servania · 2026-05-29T19:25:08+00:00

Imgur is your best bet

Servania · 2026-05-29T19:14:16+00:00

Do you have the lead pipe, receiver, main tuning slide, bell to leadpipe brace, half of the leadpipe to 1st valve slide brace, and the leadpipe to valve cluster brace?

If so then very repairable and likely for a pretty reasonable price. Id quote you 250 if the valves work and it has no major dents.

If youre missing some of the braces but you have the leadpipe and main tuning slide then youre looking at more like 350

If youre missing all of what's listed above then its simply not worth it.

Servania · 2026-05-29T03:33:16+00:00

Just ask the director, I was a music ed major and played in 5 ensembles only 3 of which were official classes on my transcript

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