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Chadrinkincat wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:38 pm

Yes, but this version as far as I can tell isn't commonly found on f1. Only f1 ive seen it on was a single fb post. All others were on F2 pots and even those were limited.

Do you mean because it is square? There are many F1 pots with square zhongguo yixing seals.

Bok wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:35 am

So, FB group came back quickly, not F1 probably after 90.

Still a good buy at that price, clay and brewing behaviour is good.

Good extension as well to do some side by side comparisons with the other pot.

That's what I thought. Several details are off.

mm this looks a bit weird to me. It's trying to be a 1980s green label but I am not quite convinced...

what does the base look like?

tingjunkie wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 16, 2018 6:51 pm

I'm really enjoying how some pots are getting varied opinions on their authenticity. I hope Dr. Lu or another expert might swoop in and give us some definitive answers.

You can post them on Dr.Lv's facebook group

My 2 cents...

First one is real, F1 1970s.
Second one looks like green label but I have some doubts about the base.
Third one, fake. Clay is wrong, workmanship all over the place (lid profile is off), the qing yin pot was not made with that seal...

I don't have the pottery knowledge to give you a truly academic answer, but the two big things I can think of are temperature control inside the kiln, and duration of the firing. Wood fired dragon kilns were impossible to have even temperatures all throughout, so there were often hotter areas and c...

Jo wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:44 pm

Special order ... new Hagi tea ware is on its way for my birthday.
Kashun

I really love the shape of these. Photos to follow when they arrive.

Exciting! Looking forward to seeing the pictures!

I agree! As frequently happens, we find more common ground as we open the discussion. I fret that too many of us have dogmatic beliefs that are not borne out by experience and experimentation, yet we hold on to the detriment of ourselves and others. I am glad to be in your good company. Agree and l...

The conversation is becoming quite fun :) With respect to ShuShu's point, definitely porous pots also emphasize some aspects of the tea. Sometimes that can also be achieved by muting some others, Baisao's analogy with music works quite well here. If you lower the volume of one instrument, you may no...

I haven’t found many absolutes in GFC and taste varies from person to person. With this in mind, I respectfully disagree regarding the importance of pour speed and the affinity of yancha with lao zhuni. I also brew yancha in late Qing and ROC lao zhuni as well as late '60s F1 hongni. I am not advoc...

So all in all the muting factors from the porous clay might be upended by its volume and resulting heat retention properties. Yes, multiple dimensions contribute to the performance of a pot and size/heat retention is an important one. People should not evaluate a pot only based on clay. Clay, firin...

tealifehk wrote: ↑

Sun May 27, 2018 4:06 pm

Bok, I've found Purion to sing with anything that doesn't need muting: high mountain oolong and black teas, as well as good young sheng, absolutely sing in Purion!

My experience with gaoshan in purion was a disaster

For studying purposes still an interesting set, I can imagine it is easy to extend it with some proper clays in that pot shape and size for further exploration! Yes. Another approach I use is to try multiple different shapes for each clay. One can try 3/4 pots of different shapes in hongni, and 3/4...

5405FC15-AD34-4B5F-BB73-834C776D34FA.jpegMy first shiboridashi. I purchased the set from O-Cha when they reopened after the tsunamI. I’m getting very good results even though the shib is glazed. Maybe technique is more important than clay. Nice set. It looks like it's inspired to the work of Miwa K...