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by Hmm
Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241773

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

Just wondering for those who have TDS meters, or other ways of measuring water quality. When you pour water into an yixing without tea, boiled or cold, and then pour it back out into a glass vessel, is there a drastic change in the readings? Do yixings change the water quality, or really just affect...
by Hmm
Sat Sep 01, 2018 12:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Longevity of Tea Leaves: Sustaining Multiple Steeps
Replies: 15
Views: 9757

Re: Longevity of Tea Leaves: Sustaining Multiple Steeps

Hi Victoria, I firmly believe that "number of steeps" is essentially an irrelevant figure that mostly is misused and exaggerated by tea vendors to entice customers to their teas. The number of steeps will vary not just by tea but by the individual doing the brewing. I. for example, rarely steep my ...
by Hmm
Thu Aug 23, 2018 11:56 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Accelerated seasoning success
Replies: 49
Views: 25799

Re: Accelerated seasoning success

Does Chawangshop sell lead glazed wares? Not sure I've seen those on the site. This ones are pretty good candidates for leaching lead: https://www.chawangshop.com/tea-hardware/vintage-famille-rose-cup-butterflies-and-flowers-35ml.html Vintage, thick overglaze and also drawings on the inside. I have...
by Hmm
Tue Jul 31, 2018 5:08 pm
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Vintage tea cups safe to use?
Replies: 6
Views: 6341

Re: Vintage tea cups safe to use?

With blue and white porcelain, the temperatures needed to fire them means that it should be almost close to impossible for there to be any traces of lead left.
by Hmm
Thu Jun 21, 2018 10:13 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: An antique gift
Replies: 9
Views: 5831

Re: An antique gift

My thoughts are that the eyes are a bit too expressive to be at least 100 years old. Eyes like that didn't really appear until at least the start PRC era.
by Hmm
Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:58 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Rice Grain Cups
Replies: 6
Views: 3918

Re: Rice Grain Cups

There is a dedicated forum for Chinese porcelain where you will have a lot of experts for verification. Need to dig out the link. They helped me quite well with my antique market finds! Are you talking about http://discussion.chinese-antique-porcelain.com/index.php?board=1.0 that I told you about a...
by Hmm
Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:52 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Rice Grain Cups
Replies: 6
Views: 3918

Re: Rice Grain Cups

It's really hard sometimes to try to establish whether something is late Qing or ROC, since there's really not that much difference in type of porcelain that was being produced. Unless we are talking about late ROC period or during WW2. So I would just label these as somewhere around 1920-30s or so?...
by Hmm
Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:55 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: The Porcelain Thread
Replies: 311
Views: 218496

Re: The Porcelain Thread

gatmcm's hand painted rice pattern bowl is likely first half of the 20th century, while Brent's gaiwan is no earlier than the mid 60s. I think it's probably anywhere from the 60s to 70s. I don't think they were outlining with red after that, but I'm not entirely sure. If I remember right rice grain...
by Hmm
Sat Mar 24, 2018 11:39 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: The Porcelain Thread
Replies: 311
Views: 218496

Re: The Porcelain Thread

gatmcm's hand painted rice pattern bowl is likely first half of the 20th century, while Brent's gaiwan is no earlier than the mid 60s. I think it's probably anywhere from the 60s to 70s. I don't think they were outlining with red after that, but I'm not entirely sure. If I remember right rice grain ...
by Hmm
Thu Mar 08, 2018 12:16 pm
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Some old porcelain
Replies: 3
Views: 2958

Re: Some old porcelain

I could be wrong but the "Yongle" bowl just doesn't look right, and is probably relatively new, but someone tried to make it look a little older.

The others with the painting on it looks like it could be Republican perhaps late 19th century, but certainly not Qianlong like the bottom mark suggests.
by Hmm
Thu Feb 15, 2018 11:41 am
Forum: China & Taiwan
Topic: Cups
Replies: 27
Views: 16056

Re: Cups

Stephen wrote:
Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:03 am
I love the painting on this one.
This cup, and the other rice grain pattern bowl look like early 20th century porcelain. Do you taste any difference between them and a more modern cup?