Friend from Taiwan

[earlyteapot]

Hi,

I come from Taiwan. I like pu-erh and Taiwanese oolong tea. I also like the Chinese Yi-Xing early teapots from 1960's to 1990's. If you have interesting in early Chinese Yi-xing teapot, welcome to join our early Yi-xing teapot group in Facebook. (However, it is in Chinese.) Nice to be here.

The website of our group in Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/teapot2/?ref=bookmarks

[kyarazen]

Hi,

I come from Taiwan. I like pu-erh and Taiwanese oolong tea. I also like the Chinese Yi-Xing early teapots from 1960's to 1990's. If you have interesting in early Chinese Yi-xing teapot, welcome to join our early Yi-xing teapot group in Facebook. (However, it is in Chinese.) Nice to be here.

The website of our group in Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/teapot2/?ref=bookmarks

呂教授您好！欢迎光临～～

Greetings Dr Lu, welcome to teachat!

[earlyteapot]

Hi,

I come from Taiwan. I like pu-erh and Taiwanese oolong tea. I also like the Chinese Yi-Xing early teapots from 1960's to 1990's. If you have interesting in early Chinese Yi-xing teapot, welcome to join our early Yi-xing teapot group in Facebook. (However, it is in Chinese.) Nice to be here.

The website of our group in Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/teapot2/?ref=bookmarks

呂教授您好！欢迎光临～～

Greetings Dr Lu, welcome to teachat!

Thank you.

[tingjunkie]

Welcome! Hope we will get to see some of your Yixing collection over here.

[AT333]

Welcome Dr Lu, with great respect and admiration. A great honor to have you here.woohoo!

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Dr. Lu,

Can we post F1 pots here for analysis? I don't use Facebook and I can't read Chinese.

[kyarazen]

Dr. Lu,

Can we post F1 pots here for analysis? I don't use Facebook and I can't read Chinese.

if shuiping pots, why not

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Here is a shuiping I got in a group. The color is not exact. It is zini clay, single hole, Zhongguo seal on bottom. No other seals. It is a dark brown. Don't know which period.

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[earlyteapot]

Here is a shuiping I got in a group. The color is not exact. It is zini clay, single hole, Zhongguo seal on bottom. No other seals. It is a dark brown. Don't know which period.

Hi, If we want to identify it's period. We need more pictures about the inner of the cover and bottom. Because different period use different mold. By the mold and the construct methods, we can tell the period. Would you show me more pictures about the inner of cover and bottom?

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I hope these help. Color is darker, not as red.

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Some more............

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[earlyteapot]

According to it's shape and construct method, it looks like 90's.

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F1 or F2?

Also, for the sake of helping me and others who have an interest in how to determine when a factory pot was made, could you try and explain how you look at a pot and what you are looking for? This would be greatly appreciated.

[earlyteapot]

F1 or F2?

Also, for the sake of helping me and others who have an interest in how to determine when a factory pot was made, could you try and explain how you look at a pot and what you are looking for? This would be greatly appreciated.

It looks like F1.
If we want to know the period of F1 pots. There are something we have to know first. All of the F1 teapots from 1958 to 1998 were product under mass production, just like the pur-erh tea on the same period of time. Under mass production, each pot was not alone. They use the same clay, mold, construction process, seal and kiln for the same period. And different period use different clay, mold, construction process, seal and kiln for some reasons. So if we can categorized it into different types by its clay, mold, construction process and seal, we can identify its period. This is what I did right now. I have wrote a book, just published two months ago, named "Early Teapots encyclopedia" with 560 pages. In this book, I collected more than 500 F1 teapots from 1958 to 1998 and explain how to identify it. The problem is it is in Chinese. If you can read Chinese, this book could help a lot. However, If I have more time, I will try to explain it in English in the future. Just hope more people can understand it.

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I see. It's a shame the book is only published in Chinese, but of course, the primary interest is with the Chinese people.

Now, many westerners become interested in tea and teaware, but we are very disadvantaged in not having access to written material or knowledgeable Chinese collectors who can share their knowledge in English.