Bok wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:34 am
I prefer the most common denominator in this case: Yixing is any pottery ware made from clay of the rough vicinity of Yixing by whatever method the potter or company sees fit. One might add: typically slab built and unglazed.
Seems to me that the vast majority of consumers basically adheres to something along these lines.
+1 (for what it's worth).
Unless the discussion deviates on to a semantic (mine) field, the mere name of "Yixing" refers to the location of the clay and thus the clay itself even though the exact same clay exists somewhere else. And if the history/tradition has been mostly unglazed and slab built with some variations, that is what Yixing is for me as a buyer. And I'd had the location is more important than the mere clay, since there are a few of them. Very much like Champagne, legally this is an "AOC" roughly translating into "Origin Guaranteed Designation" e.g. it has to come from this very specific place, anything else is counterfeit or more commonly called fizzy wine. Meanwhile Champagne is white, rosé, brut, etc...
I am sure many of you saw
this already. If it's agreed this is all yixing art, the common element seems to be the body clay.
For teapots, because of the clay effect, and for the tea drinker collector category I suspect there is an obvious bias to restrict yixing to
@Bok definition. I would look at it as a sub-division of yixing.