FS: Wu Yungen rare 55ml teapot (Zisha Yixing)

[ksenk]

For sale rare 55ml Zisha Yixing egoist teapot for collector

陽羡吳製 [Yangxian Wu zhi]
Made by Wu in Yangxiang” (where 吳 У is the potter's last name, 陽羡 ‘Yangxian’ is the old name of Yixing).
The brand was used on the teapots of the famous 20th century potter Wu Yungen [1892-1969], also known as Wu Zhilai (吴芝莱).

The inscription on the side of teapot: 神韵 [Shen Yun] - literally: 'magic melody’ (poet. ‘divine rhythm', 'romantic charm')

Worldwide delivery
27500$ (USDT preferably)
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https://imgur.com/a/wu-yungen-iLQsXRy

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Wu Yungen (1892-1969), a native of Heqiao, Yixing, was among the most well-known zisha artists of the early 20th century. He was known to best express the naturalistic aspect of a teapot through its form. One of the seven old artists of Zisha. Disciples Wang Yinxian, Lü Yaochen, etc. Works selected for the Great Hall of the People

Wu Yungen (1892-1969), also known as Zhilai, is a famous Yixing purple clay artist. He started learning from Wang Shengyi at the age of 14, and became a fellow apprentice with Wang Baogen and Zhu Kexin. He is one of the famous "Seven Famous Purple Clay Artists" . His pot-making style is simple and steady. He is good at making plain pots and ribbed pots. He is unique in imitating traditional products and is good at making changes, giving people a sense of novelty. He enjoys the reputation of "superb".
He is a famous master of the teapot world, and has made outstanding contributions to the cultivation of purple clay craftsmanship. Several of the most accomplished and influential Chinese arts and crafts masters, such as Wang Yinxian, Lü Yaochen, and Bao Zhiqiang, have all received his teachings and lessons, showing his profound influence on the current purple clay art world. As the saying goes, a teapot is like its creator, and Wu Yungen's works are warm, steady, simple, elegant and moist. He has learned from many masters in art, achieved outstanding results, and is well-known in the teapot world, and has been praised as "his reputation is as great as his teacher, and there are few who can come after him."
In 1915, he was introduced by Yixing Yongli Pottery Company to work as a technician at the Pingmin Pottery Factory in Pingding County, Shanxi Province, which lasted for three years. He traveled with Yang Ashi and Li Baozhen. During this period, he not only taught the molding technology of purple clay pottery, but also used charcoal glaze kilns to experiment with secondary firing of furnace-even glazed purple clay pottery, achieving satisfactory results. He became one of the outstanding representatives of the modern Yixing pottery industry in spreading purple clay skills to other provinces. After returning to his hometown, he still made pots. In 1929, he was hired as a technician in the Ceramics Department of Nanjing Central University and returned to Yixing two years later. In 1932, he worked as a technician in the Kiln Industry Department of Jiangsu Provincial Yixing Middle School. Later, he recommended his junior brother Zhu Kexin to the school to teach together until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War and the closure of the school. ;;;
He has been engaged in formal art education in the academy for a long time, attaches great importance to sketching, especially the shape of bamboo, which enriches the materials and connotations for him to make bamboo pots, reaching the realm of perfection. He teaches his apprentices to pay attention to the shape and spirit of pot making, understand the ecological laws, recognize the quality, and experience sketching from life, so that they can integrate and master it.
Wu Yungen was hardworking, honest, upright, and clear about the distinction between public and private affairs. He did not leave any of his works to his children until his death. His purple clay works are wonderfully conceived and are known as "superb". His "Handle Arc Watermelon Pot", "Two-color Bamboo Section Pot", "Large Bamboo Handle", "Chuanlu Pot", "Line Cloud Pot", "Heshui Pot", etc. have been selected to participate in domestic and foreign ceramic exhibitions many times and have a far-reaching reputation. His bamboo flower pots, large rectangular water-bottom basins, new stone peach, water chestnut tea sets, two-color persimmons, as well as "Fish Cover Pot" and "Chunning Pot" are quite creative in traditional techniques.
His works like to use two-color clay to express the subject, and bamboo is often used as the theme. The bamboo joints are the body of the pot, which is upright and strong. The spout, handle, and button are decorated with small bamboo branches climbing on the pot body. They are composed of curved branches, supplemented by a few small bamboo leaves, stretching and graceful like fluttering in the wind, with a good density; the two clay colors echo each other, and the colors are harmonious and appropriate. In terms of production and processing techniques, the reasonable structure with bamboo joints as the main body, and leaves, stems, branches, and buds as the foil, fully expresses the charm of green bamboo. For example, "Persimmon Pot" is a common shape. He uses a variety of techniques to make it. There are four-petal stem pattern persimmon pots that are suitable for decorative inscriptions and are smooth, and there are also flip-top persimmon pots that focus on expressing the ecology of persimmons, which are smooth and charming. "Chuanlu Pot" is honest and simple, and "Hu Ling Pot" is square and round, and round and square. His works are natural and have no sense of carving.

[.m.]

IMO, the pot is not old

[polezaivsani]

The carving on this piece is done so badly which along with the asking price I consider to be an insult to the community. It's antithetical to the claimed fluid and robust sensibilities of works of master, more like clumsy attempts to imitate some such traits.

[ksenk]

Please, take it easy! Am I guided by information I have from elder specialist, Chinese translator, or was he mistaken or deceived? He gave me an example https://tw.bid.yahoo.com/item/101141445323
It didn't seem to me that carving on mine was less skillful, my looks interesting in reality

If you can give something that is not subjective, let's discuss it. If you are right, price will of course be changed for anyone interested in buying

Thanks. With respect to community

[.m.]

He gave me an example https://tw.bid.yahoo.com/item/101141445323

That one is new as well
(btw. the prices are in TWD)

[ksenk]

Thanks for explaining! I'm very confused, everything was misunderstood by me
I'm sorry, I didn't know all that

I don't have a greed, thank God. My purpose is just to update my collection, this teapot brewed well, and has good old yixing clay, has a smooth coating tea on sides
My wish only sell it for just real price, market value. 250-600$? Could you help me with assigning an adequate cost?

I realize now that I'm in a good place
Thanks a lot

[ksenk]

I know this teapot was in collection of a Wushu master in Moscow for last ~25 years, he got it in exchange in one of the teahouses in the 90s
Nothing else is known

[alejandro2high]

How do you go from $27,000 to $250-$600?

If nothing else is known, why try to pass it off as such a prestigious pot?

[sheep.payday2]

[…] My purpose is just to update my collection, this teapot brewed well, and has good old yixing clay, has a smooth coating tea on sides
My wish only sell it for just real price, market value. 250-600$? Could you help me with assigning an adequate cost?

USD 25–60 could be closer to truth. This kind of pot has no collectible value apart from its ability to brew good tea, although I do think it's more interesting than a modern assembly-line yixing. On the other hand, in the USD 250–600 range there are plenty of vintage and modern pots "with pedigree" to choose from.