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by Bok
Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:17 pm
Forum: Vendor Discussion & Recommendation
Topic: Your favorite Dan Cong vendor?
Replies: 106
Views: 197477

Re: Your favorite Dan Cong vendor?

GaoShan wrote:
Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:40 pm
might try to buy her teas from Kyarazen.
Kyarazen does not sell tea.
by Bok
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:19 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Yixing
Replies: 5884
Views: 1829699

Re: Yixing

Thanks guys! I’ll snap some more pics when I have good light and time.
by Bok
Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:18 am
Forum: Announcements & Guides
Topic: Introduce Yourself
Replies: 1433
Views: 560700

Re: Introduce Yourself

@chaimari wow that’s an extensive introduction! Welcome and thanks for sharing all this, hope we can assist the journey.
by Bok
Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:51 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Yixing
Replies: 5884
Views: 1829699

Re: Yixing

A pot I’ve been liking a lot since a long time, but have always put on hold for a variety of reasons, finally in my collection! 1960s Hongni Bianyuan. A shape rarely seen, but very beautiful in its simplicity. My second favourite teapot shape. Also, just for the clay I’m willing to put my snobbery a...
by Bok
Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Yixing
Replies: 5884
Views: 1829699

Re: Yixing

I picked up a super dirty Xi Shi pot recently with the thought of Nian Gao Tu in mind. Might be due to tea stain, the whole pot had a light brown hue on the outside. After a deep cleaning session, it appears to be Hong Ni possibly from the late 70s - early 80s. What do you all think? I apologize fo...
by Bok
Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:21 pm
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: looking for any info on the quality/authenticity of this pot. Thanks a lot!!
Replies: 12
Views: 1062

Re: looking for any info on the quality/authenticity of this pot. Thanks a lot!!

The vendor isn't an yixing focused one, is a generic antique vendor, and he surely didn't clean the pot prior to selling it/photographing it so the dirt on the bottom of the pot could be dirt maybe. Actually the pot didn't seem that bad clay wise and, in my humble and surely not expert opinion, I s...
by Bok
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: Tea/Teaware Vendors
Topic: Bok
Replies: 277
Views: 306726

Re: Bok

chaeric wrote:
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:52 pm
Thanks Bok!
You are welcome! Looks very nice in your light!
by Bok
Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:56 pm
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: looking for any info on the quality/authenticity of this pot. Thanks a lot!!
Replies: 12
Views: 1062

Re: looking for any info on the quality/authenticity of this pot. Thanks a lot!!

Mèng Chén (孟臣) but I have so far not yet seen any version attributed to him in seal script, so far I've ever only seen handwritten signing. But obviously the pot is much too young for being his work. The sign in the leaf on the left could be ​Xiāng (​香), have seen that once that there was an additi...
by Bok
Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:23 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: looking for any info on the quality/authenticity of this pot. Thanks a lot!!
Replies: 12
Views: 1062

Re: looking for any info on the quality/authenticity of this pot. Thanks a lot!!

Doesn’t look promising, the attempts at faking patina looks as if done to pass it off as antique… clay doesn’t look like Yixing to me, at least not good quality.
by Bok
Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:45 pm
Forum: Black Tea
Topic: Lapsang Souchong
Replies: 65
Views: 19087

Re: Lapsang Souchong

As it happens, a little article on Lapsang in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ibly-wrong
by Bok
Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:26 pm
Forum: Tea/Teaware Vendors
Topic: EsonTea: DaYuLing 95k
Replies: 46
Views: 24114

Re: EsonTea: DaYuLing 95k

Does anyone know the status of 95K or any of the other farms? Did not check recently, but you can reasonably assume that most of what is left of DYL tea is staying inside the country... a lot of what you see marketed as DYL is pretty close to the area, so taste wise it can be the same(or better, de...
by Bok
Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:25 pm
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Probably a nixing teapot
Replies: 21
Views: 1653

Re: Probably a nixing teapot

such a hater Bok :lol: it can't all be antique zhuni. I am curious what your direct experience with it is- newer or older pots and what you were brewing with it? I'm not trying to call you wrong here - we all have our opinions and tastes. :lol: Let's say it like this – if I were wanting to drink th...
by Bok
Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:53 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Probably a nixing teapot
Replies: 21
Views: 1653

Re: Probably a nixing teapot

tolean wrote:
Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:43 am
I like how it brews my shu every morning for last 3 years.
That is the key point here. Many pots that are no good for anything else work for Shu.
by Bok
Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:31 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Probably a nixing teapot
Replies: 21
Views: 1653

Re: Probably a nixing teapot

Pretty unlikely anyone fakes these... so should be what it looks like : ) Thank you! And ,,these,, do you think are of decent quality? Or a low mass production not worth to try? :) I mean, for a modern teapot I would say this looks not too well made, but since I am not knowledgeable about older pot...
by Bok
Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:34 pm
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Probably a nixing teapot
Replies: 21
Views: 1653

Re: Probably a nixing teapot

Pretty unlikely anyone fakes these... so should be what it looks like : )