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Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:05 am

Bok wrote:
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Here’s a little 60ml Zhuni I recently repaired.
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Nice one 😍 Mid-Qing?
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Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:12 pm

.m. wrote:
Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:05 am
Bok wrote:
Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:47 pm
Here’s a little 60ml Zhuni I recently repaired.
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Nice one 😍 Mid-Qing?
Hehe, bingo! Rare to find them this small from that period.
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Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:31 pm

Bok wrote:
Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:12 pm
Hehe, bingo! Rare to find them this small from that period.
I'm curious: do you know if that is because they didn't make them so small as often as compared to the LQER period, or because big pots just tended to survive a bit more easily than tiny pots?

I guess it might feed into the whole history of when people started drinking very concentrated tea in tiny teapots.

In any event, nice teapot, and definitely worth repairing...

@DailyTX: agreed, not enough photos here. I might try to take some of pots that I've acquired not very recently, but which haven't yet shown themselves off much around here (but I've been trying to control my urges, so there aren't too many...). I assume your pot has been enjoying some dark teas, but I usually think that about any pot in that shade of medium brown zini.

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Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:44 pm

Andrew S wrote:
Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:31 pm
Bok wrote:
Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:12 pm
Hehe, bingo! Rare to find them this small from that period.
I'm curious: do you know if that is because they didn't make them so small as often as compared to the LQER period, or because big pots just tended to survive a bit more easily than tiny pots?

I guess it might feed into the whole history of when people started drinking very concentrated tea in tiny teapots.
I can only speculate... for one the vast majority found are larger, they only tend to become tiny in late Qing. Survival rate might be one explanation. But I'd warrant a larger pot breaks all the same as a small one... the smaller the item, the more carefully you'd handle it. The larger ones are no less frail, on the contrary, large cracks just as easy and chips much more likely (the elephant in the porcelain shop, as opposed to a mouse)

Secondly, it seems that the skills weren't quite there yet to make smaller sizes. Different methods to process clay, firing etc. Quite obvious on Ming dynasty Yixing which in the majority has clay that is not very uniform and a lot of very crude shapes (exceptions exist).

But again, this is deduction and speculation on my part.
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Andrew S wrote:
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I guess it might feed into the whole history of when people started drinking very concentrated tea in tiny teapots.
I would tend to think that the small size has more to do with tea being a luxury item that you wouldn't consume mindlessly in large quantities... at least in the areas where the most precious teas were produced > Wuyi. It is a different story with the teas that got shipped and "caravaned" across the continent.
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Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:10 pm

DailyTX wrote:
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This thread has been buried for almost a month, did we stop buying yixing? haha
Yeah, this thread has been abnormally quiet. I’ve kept my new pot acquisitions to a minimum I have a new LQER pot in the mail which I’ll post once it arrives. Nothing too fancy but the theme isn’t too common.

What size is that pigeon? Looks like a good heicha pot.

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Nice repair! Clay looks good too
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Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:16 pm

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DailyTX wrote:
Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:44 pm
This thread has been buried for almost a month, did we stop buying yixing? haha
Yeah, this thread has been abnormally quiet. I’ve kept my new pot acquisitions to a minimum I have a new LQER pot in the mail which I’ll post once it arrives. Nothing too fancy but the theme isn’t too common.
It got quiet like this at the beginning of the pandemic. I think there may be less purchasing occurring in the West as people prepare for economic instability on both continents.
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Thu Oct 06, 2022 1:26 am

Actially, when the Pandemic began (or rather, was declared a pandemIc by the WHO and measures started appearing outside of China) on March 11 this Yixing thread (which was opened in October 2017) was only on page 70 with 1032 posts. It's now on page 357 with 5437 posts..

So an impressive average of 4.39 posts per day from then and until now (that sounds crazy high, I gathered these numbers from bed on my phone so take them with a pinch of salt). Maybe it's after measures were dropped the activity slumped. There's certainly been no shortage of economic insecurity and rising prices on basic necesseties this year, and at the same time the "bubble life" of lockdown with what felt like all the time in the world to look at beautiful pots seems like a distant past for most of us...
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I also noticed that in the lock-down period of the pandemic a lot of stuff was bought... a lot.
Reasonable/rational behaviour is not a human trait.
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Thu Oct 06, 2022 1:50 am

I remember it was slow the first three months but whatever
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Thu Oct 06, 2022 5:35 am

Baisao wrote:
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I think there may be less purchasing occurring in the West as people prepare for economic instability on both continents.
This. And while some might be able to afford it I will speculate it feels in bad taste to flaunt luxuries right now.

Edited: Just to point out this isn't my covert view. Maybe there will be more posts around Christmas time.
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Thu Oct 06, 2022 6:14 am

Seen the state of the world that would be always the case…

Shipping tea around the world is never justified if we talk about it in terms of morals. It is a luxury. Always.
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Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:55 am

If looked from the perspective of morals, yes I would agree. :D We'd never justify having nice things! During the pandemic it was a popular thing to do the opposite and I can only observe from my own little corner of the world how attitudes have changed.
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Sat Oct 08, 2022 8:40 pm

This thread will never stay quiet!! Short spans of silence is normal... hahahahaha.... now where are our Yixing Warriors?? :D :D :D
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Thu Oct 13, 2022 10:20 pm

Chadrinkincat wrote:
Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:10 pm
What size is that pigeon? Looks like a good heicha pot.
@Chadrinkincat about 180 ml. You guessed, anything dark will be good :lol:
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