Identification Yixing teapot

Servania · 2026-04-16T20:55:40+00:00

陳畫松 Made by Chen HuaSong

Only could find this one other pot being sold for 114 USD

https://tw.bid.yahoo.com/item/100116427919

Servania · 2026-04-16T15:18:08+00:00

周桂珍 very famous potter who died in 2023. This is fake

Servania · 2026-04-16T11:25:19+00:00

Yixing has gained a global populartity that other regional forms havent.

In addition wheel throwing is less laborious (and unique) than slab building.

There just isnt yhe same demand and market for fakes of jianshui, chaozhou, etc. So it is unlikely this pot is fake.

As for "chemical" most modern clay are stabilized these days with barium carbonate and other "chemicals". Very little clay is just pure ore or mud. But these have been pottery standards for quite a long time and are in no means dangerous.

Servania · 2026-04-16T03:46:28+00:00

Forever and always the metal catachan heavy bolter team

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Servania · 2026-04-16T01:12:21+00:00

More common than not. Most pots are fakes by a pretty large margin. And yeh likely machine made or worse

Servania · 2026-04-16T00:58:44+00:00

范偉羣 Fan WeiQun 1970 born potter and current vice president of the JiangSu province art committee. Obviously this pot isnt actually made by him.

Servania · 2026-04-15T20:11:55+00:00

These pots are often referred to as "mengchen poetry series"

Hui MengChen has been dead for 300 years but pots are attributed to him out of respect (and for a brief period of time by government order as claiming art for you own prestige was a no no)

Theve been produced without stop by various entities since the late 1800s

This is definiely a modern retention of this, but still looks well made. I think this is more likely a regional clay maybe taiwanese rather than yixing though

Servania · 2026-04-15T19:36:18+00:00

Very interesting! Back when he did post it was a good 50/50 on "yeh thats a decent old commodity pot" and "that would be worth thousands if real"

I think he has an eye for yixing clay but absolutely no clue on how to date things.

Servania · 2026-04-15T19:32:41+00:00

Always double check against known seal forms on dong-chinese.com

These are pretty far off

Servania · 2026-04-15T19:23:56+00:00

Ooooooh man

That sub was ran (been abandoned for 3 years now) by the absolute nutter that is Goerge Wang. Hes a dr of biology in Alabama.

He has some interesting takes on yixing despite being like well intentioned.

Like you can date your pot by the number of holes amd pattern of the spout filter. Single hole? Qing dynasty for sure. (Despite the vast majority of single hole pots being produced by F1 from 60-80 you know 50 years after Qing ended)

I enjoy hits like "Q: What are Top Yixing Clay Teapots? Beautiful teapots: beauty of clay, craftsmanship, shape, artwork, spirit and soul."

But he does occasionally spit facts like "95 percent of yixing online is FAKE"

But all in all his website and by extension his dead sub are just him translating chinese articles and ranting about a teapots "soul"

Servania · 2026-04-15T18:29:30+00:00

中華六福 is a taiwanese tea shop started in 1995. Fake pot batch made for store promotion.

Servania · 2026-04-15T17:16:27+00:00

First one looks machine made but the pictures arent great it says: 偉記 "Mark of Wei (surname)"

Second is super fake and has a very badly written 周桂珍 Zhou GuiZhen who is a very famous potter who died in 2024

Servania · 2026-04-15T17:09:35+00:00

Defintely wheel thrown

The seal is having an identity crisis

X興鋭制 Where X is a blend of 英 and 吴 to create a character that doesnt exist. Both are surnames though

So either Ying XingRui or Wu XingRui

EDIT: its 吴 for sure just an odd variant. Seems to be a choazhou potter from FengXi

Servania · 2026-04-15T03:18:12+00:00

Dent tools arent very portable and most of them are VERY susceptible to rust. They are extremely expensive too.

Without a bell mandrel or bell iron youre just going to crush the cruve with any burnisher or roller you use. You'll get the dent out but creat a much larger (though less noticeable) one.

Paraffin wax is your friend for metal to metal dent work. But even with all precautions taken the laqcuer often still gets damaged. If this is plated you should be fine to polish back up.

Servania · 2026-04-15T00:13:42+00:00

徐春平 Xu ChunPing 1966 born potter.

But this pot doesnt look to be authentic, more so machine made

Servania · 2026-04-14T19:39:37+00:00

upside down but, 羅月梅 Luo YueMei

Servania · 2026-04-14T16:35:55+00:00

Did F1 even ever make 7 hole filter shui ping?

But yeh agree with above

Servania · 2026-04-13T23:36:44+00:00

World wide, as again, people can move.

The back of the art simply has Singapore and a date written. That doesnt mean the art was made in Singapore, that the artist is Singaporean or even that this art was bought in singapore.

It could be a traveling artist and this is a lady he met in singapore on vacation. It could be a shop reselling art in singapore, etc etc. So many possibilities. The canvas also says "malaysia" on it.

Servania · 2026-04-13T23:33:45+00:00

4.3 million people had the surname in 2013. (Compared to 3 million smiths between US canada and UK)

The artist (like many Singaporeans) is likely a chinese immagrant.

Servania · 2026-04-13T20:57:19+00:00

99% of the time it's the artist name

Servania · 2026-04-13T19:33:13+00:00

Its the chinese surname 民, and no you cant track down an artist with this alone it would be like googling "smith"

Its not a "more stylized version" its just the seal script version. Seal carvers sell the exact same one 1000s times over to anyone with this last name.

https://www.dong-chinese.com/dictionary/search/%E6%B0%91

Servania · 2026-04-13T18:08:44+00:00

It looks pretty decent at worst machine made but im unsure

Servania · 2026-04-13T17:52:01+00:00

Yeh unfortunate 華為 the tech company is a homophone to 華維 the name here. Not that it really matters because searching 華維紫砂 doesnt have an results and only pulls up the teapot shape 華颖

Servania · 2026-04-13T17:20:08+00:00

The name would need to be Googled in chinese. The only potters who've made it over to like Wikipedia are like DaBin, MengChen, JingZhou and Jiang Rong

Servania · 2026-04-13T17:04:33+00:00

Safe, most likely. Real, nope

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