In the U.S. at least, museums sometimes sell Yixing teapots! Here is an example: https://store.phxart.org/collections/di ... ing-teapot From my understanding, these are affordable copies of famous pots, sort of the Yixing equivalent of an art-print. What makes them different than counterfeits is that they usually have a mark on them that let's you know they are from a Tourist Yixing company. The example above is made by Tryeh (who used to be known as CCCI). What they used to do back in the CCCI days was to put a CCCI stamp with CCCI and the year of production on it, even if they reproduced the original artist's seal. Sadly, these copies don't seem to have any seals on them by the copying artist.
For many people, Tourist Yixing is their first (and possibly only) exposure to Yixing teapots, so I thought maybe a thread on them might be fun.
"It belongs in a museum!" aka Tourist Yixing
Here is another one: https://store.asianart.org/collections/ ... g-teapot-2
I don't see this one listed under Tryeh or World Treasure Trading, which are the two big Tourist Yixing companies I know of, so it must be from another one. Given that the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco was Terese Tse Bartholomew's home for many years, maybe they have a special arrangement with someone?
I don't see this one listed under Tryeh or World Treasure Trading, which are the two big Tourist Yixing companies I know of, so it must be from another one. Given that the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco was Terese Tse Bartholomew's home for many years, maybe they have a special arrangement with someone?
Another Tryeh from the Asia Society of New York: https://asiastore.org/product/teapot-yixing-corn-husk/ Also maybe a candidate for a lost-in-translation pot, being corn-themed.