
Lishan, medium roast Dongding and to finish some aged roasted Lishan. Too early for conclusions, slowly waking it up to find its place.
I generally don't correlate pot size to number of people. When I use larger pots, I do fewer & longer infusions while when I use smaller pots, my infusions are more & shorter.Bok wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:59 pmUp to 200 is still ok for one or two people. I used to use 150 a lot, too thirsty!![]()
Better though for rolled oolongs which take up quite some space once fully expanded, thus reducing the amount which finally ends in the cup quite a bit!
150ml gives me hardly enough for 4 people, with standard sized Chinese teacups.
That is of course valid. The character of the tea will be different though. I usually only us high leaf to water ration, so larger pots are a bit of a waste of expensive tea for me.
Knob doesn't look right for that pot. I think it's suppose to be these two.Chris wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:59 pmI'm helping a friend catalog her parents' Japanese pottery collection and we found a Yixing pot lurking among the chawan.Any thoughts?
Her parents lived in Japan from approximately 1969 to 1972. We're assuming this is when they acquired the pot, but don't know for sure that they didn't travel to China (or elsewhere) at some point.
Sorry for the bad picture of the bottom seal. It's very shallow and was difficult to get a picture of. It looks likely to be Zhongguo Yixing to me, but a bit thrown off by 國 being in the bottom-left corner.
Thank you for any ideas! I've been interested in and collecting Yixing pots for around a decade, yet when a novel situation like this presents itself, I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I actually just found an example of this pot w/ exact knob on FB. Are there tiny black dots in the clay? If so it's likely early 80's F1.