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- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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?...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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.
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.
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 11:41 am
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Cups
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16056