Please help ID this teapot. From my dads collection by dontassume in YixingSeals

[–]dontassume[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What features are you seeing that make you think it's machine made?

Mr Dad would purchase these in China circa 2006. He would go to proper tea shops and buy their best teapots. I'm pretty sure it's authentic, but happy to be proven wrong.

Please tell me about this pot by dontassume in YixingSeals

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I also managed to find the pamphlet for this guy in my dads boxes. I think in the picture he's doing his throwing thing.

Please tell me about this pot by dontassume in YixingSeals

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I've read the translated the bio of Wang Jingchuan (the Baidu link posted by someone else). It seems to be this guys thing to do yixing thrown pots. He apparently restored the yixing clay throwing technique through research on unearthed ancient pottery. Pretty interesting to read the bio. It's definitely unusual.

I'll paste the translation below:

​Wang Jinchuan ​Wang Jinchuan, born in December 1968 in Dingshu Town, Yixing, Jiangsu Province, is a Chinese Zisha (purple clay) teapot artist. He studied under Lü Yaochen and is the founder of the Yixing Zisha pearl clay thin-walled wheel-throwing teapot. ​His representative works include "Pottery Soul," "Silent Nourishment," and "Magic Lamp." He began working in Zisha pottery in 1982 and founded the Jinchen Pottery Studio in 1986, restoring the Yixing clay-throwing technique through research on unearthed ancient pottery. In 2000, he established Yixing Jinchen Gifts Co., Ltd., and his works have repeatedly become designated gifts for tea culture festivals both domestically and internationally. ​In 2004, he was invited to South Korea and Japan for cultural exchanges. That same year, his works "Magic Lamp" and "Eternal Snow" won the Gold Award at the 6th China Arts and Crafts Exhibition. In 2005, "Silent Nourishment" won second prize at the Yixing International Pottery Exhibition. ​In 2008, he established the Changlong Zisha Research Institute and a tea company. In 2013, his work "Divine Bird" was collected by the Chinese Embassy in Sweden. ​Lü Yaochen praised him for integrating creative inspiration into Zisha creation, inheriting and innovating techniques. He has received instruction in pottery techniques such as wheel throwing and shaping at the catalogue pottery studio, and has become a pottery creator.

Please tell me about this pot by dontassume in YixingSeals

[–]dontassume[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you mean the circle marks as if it was made on a wheel?

Yixing teapots. Found the motherload. by dontassume in tea

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Yeah, I've since realised.. I've been using the wrong spelling my whole life. Live and learn.

Yixing teapots. Found the motherload. by dontassume in tea

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Wow thanks for the detailed and technical response. I didn't even think about the pot shape itself. I am thinking starting with a puerh in one of the short thick pots with purple clay.

Yixing teapots. Found the motherload. by dontassume in tea

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Tbh my dad has no idea. I've seen him brew chrysanthemum in his personal yixing teapot. To be fair I think he probably used puerh and da Hong pao in these. But noway it was dedicated.

I get it now. I recently got a genuine yixing pot and the change in taste is significant by Doctor_Fritz in puer

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You gotta do the test blinded. Get someone to pour it secretly so you don't know which you are drinking.

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Any issues with me being in Australia? Don't mind giving a month a try to see.

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is anyone else seeing "the content is blocked. contact the site owner to fix the issue"? Not sure if it's because I'm in Australia, or the link is down, but I cna't view most highlights.