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Yixing
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.
Andrew
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)Andrew S wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:31 pmI'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.
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.
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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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
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.Chadrinkincat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:10 pmYeah, 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.
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...
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...
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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If looked from the perspective of morals, yes I would agree. 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.
@Chadrinkincat about 180 ml. You guessed, anything dark will be goodChadrinkincat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:10 pmWhat size is that pigeon? Looks like a good heicha pot.