steanze wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 10:21 pm
Of course! Nothing wrong with showing pots

this is the point of this thread. Also I don't make the rules about what posts are allowed or not

Good, haha

I don't want to annoy you with mediocre pots. There won't be many new pots this year however, but I'll post my experiences with the pots I already got.
steanze wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 10:21 pm
What I am saying is that you might have the opinion you currently have because you don't have as much experience with more finely made ornate pots, and that you might have something to learn from my opinion - it might help you realize what else is out there
That's absolutely right. I am still learning and my opinion about Yixing pots changes constantly. There are some pots I considered to be of good quality a couple of month ago. Now I know that the quality is not that good and that they were likely made in the 90's.
steanze wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 10:32 pm
For example, earlier you mentioned that the duanni pot had handmade calligraphy because it had "lines made to go straight with the calligraphy". I don't know where you learned that, but the teapots with hand carved calligraphy I have seen do not have such lines...
Everything I learn about tea / Yixing is from teaforum, teachat, Facebook and many tea blogs (most of them in English). Unfortunately, they sometimes tell you bullshit. For example, I boiled a teapot in tea (without the leaves) once to boost the patina development. Stupid idea, I know, and it did not work at all but it was mentioned multiple times. Regarding the calligraphy: I also have a F1 pot with calligraphy and without those lines. But I read somewhere that these characters on this pot would be multiple poems and that artists sometimes use these lines as a guidance. The author also said that calligraphy on similar pots is often made with lasers today (therefore no lines) and that the depth of the carvings indicate what tool was used. And that carvings often look more fluently on F1 pots because the same designs were used over and over again. I simply don't know what's correct and what isn't. It seemed to be plausible, but now I am not so sure if they are even poems, because I don't speak Chinese.
