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I do not own a Taijian, old or new, I leave that to someone who does... Now stepping out of the five and to the Bianyuan BIANYUAN Excruciatingly expensive in the 60s F1 Hongni version, it is a very beautiful shape as I could convince myself in person, but alas own it I do not... I have this little Z...

BIANDENG

My personal favourite shape of all, so I naturally have a lot of them in all ages, proportions, styles and sizes, but for simplicity’s sake I post the more similar ones to the later Factory Biandengs.

LQER Zhuni with rim and without, 50s and 60s F1 Hongni.

BALA Delicious fruit in Taiwan, the Bala and a popular style of Yixing pot. I did never own any vintage version of it, but I am sure someone can help out. The older version of it you see here is not a clear cut case, but you can still sort of see the kinship. This one is heavily warped from firing.

ROUBIAN Another popular shape and often seen. I always found the vintage ones a bit clumsy, at least the 70s ones, see pic, I had, but only recently it came to me that this little Zhuni is essentially the refined older version of it. This is a funny shape in my view that only looks good in small si...

XISHI Starting with the most ubiquitous of the five, the Xishi. Many love it, many hate it, but there is no way of avoiding it as it is one of the most frequently seen shapes until this day. I got a Zini version of it from the late Qing period, which has a little curve in the spout, but is otherwis...

Inspired by an off-the-rails discussion with DailyTX , furthered in the main Yixing thread, I thought this could be fun. Classic shapes, as in the five Biaozhun/Standard shapes: Xishi, Roubian, Bala/e, Biandeng, and Taijian. Sort of in ascending order of rarity and comparing them to their ancestors,...

Xishi is a shape that I have never found appealing, but also a lot of shapes that I do find appealing have had so many iterations and small changes over time, often to less pleasing proportions or variations to my eye. I'm curious does anyone have an example photo of a Qing era Xishi for example? O...

Bok Let’s continue this Five Shape/style discussion here, I don’t want to clog up the B&W thread. The bianyuan is indeed rare, I think I seen those in the ROC era. As I am digging myself deeper into the famous rabbit hole, there were info mentioned about the five shape/style controversy from ROC pe...

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@DailyTX this is an ancestor of Bianyuan, the 60s version has a flat lit and is of course infinitely more ugly than this fine specimen of Andrew.

Lately, I have been more interested in the five tradition shapes. I am not sure if this is true, from what I read, the pigeon style was created by Gu Jingzhou from modification of the shuiping. From the contrast of this pot, the body reminded me of those antique Chinese vase. ./download/file.php?id...

Lately, I have been more interested in the five tradition shapes. I am not sure if this is true, from what I read, the pigeon style was created by Gu Jingzhou from modification of the shuiping. From the contrast of this pot, the body reminded me of those antique Chinese vase. ./download/file.php?id...

@ooohleg cheers to a fellow practitioner of the visual arts! Looking forward to see what your little mystery teapot turns out to be.

Sloppy gongfu, I like that. Don’t worry too much about getting it right, it’s just tea and with time you’ll find what works best for you.

@Chadrinkincat yeah that sounds about right. Entertaining if it weren’t misleading so many people…

Black. White. Almost no grey.

While many people tend to get a bit defensive when they feel someone is challenging them (correctly or not) on something they think they know a lot about, it does make you wonder if admins or group members are openly hostile to accurate and important information... maybe they are the vendors of a l...