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TU's 2011 fall Gaoshanzhai for me today. While it's on the relatively cheap end of TU's teas, I quite enjoy this one and think that it will age quite well.

What is the forum's opinion about the importance of a tea pot that does not drip from its spout after pouring tea into cups or pitchers as a deciding facture in purchasing and/or over other engineering considerations? I have pots that never drip and some that always do. I tend to prefer to buy pots...

Mm urushi is commonly used for making tetsubins: they are hung from two holes on the bottom that are then closed with urushi lacquer. Urushiol is definitely very irritating when it is not cured, but after it is cured properly it should be fine.

Hi MmBuddha! As you mentioned, I recommend a pre-1977 hongni shuiping around 67-100ml. However, I spoke with a tea person I respect and he said that in his view also a zini is fine. It is important that the pot pours FAST!

2010 Yibang Aroma after the rinse: sweet, a mix of wildflowers and early-morning bakery. Not far from a Xikong. As the leaves cool down, some aroma of prunes. Aroma after first infusion: some grassiness on top of the bakery/wildflowers. Leaves: mostly small, with few medium-sized. First infusion: go...

What kind of oolong? If it's for taiwnese gaoshan oolong or dancong I would stick with a porcelain gaiwan, unless you can find a 70s or earlier hongni. Those pots you linked will subtract too much from the aroma. For yancha, different people have different preferences on clay. If it's for one person...

Hi Steanze, Incredible set! I've been looking for a "Teapot Tray" Looks like it is from Lin’s ceramics. But they change collections frequently. You should be able to find very similar ones on Taobao. this one was made by Xu Dejia, a potter in Yingge. They used to have some of his wares at Houde and...

It's an old tea farm and factory established by the Japanese near the Sun Moon Lake. The cultivar ruby #18 was developed there if I remember well. I can post pics of the place later

I think 1990s, non factory 1. The clay looks nice, should brew good tea

Wow, so it's Qing pre- 1912 ? Yes. I use it with care :) Is Lao Zhuni a darker red clay? I have heard of contemporary potters using supposedly old stock of zhuni clay, I wonder if it's believable. Lao zhuni is a dense red clay, with very fine particles and high shrinkage ratio. Clay processing (in ...

It's Qing, lao zhuni. The first seal example of Qing calligraphy I sent you is from this pot. In person the clay looks a bit more orange, the darker lighting in the pictures makes it look a bit more red.

it's about 180ml
Walls are medium-thick, the clay is very dense and heavy.

It's a nice shape, it has an "ancient" feeling.

Yes, this type of pots have been made since the '90s, my initial guess based on clay texture was that yours is from after 2000, but I don't have a high confidence in that guess, so it is very possible it is from the '90s