something a friend helped get for me in hong kong... just arrived tonight
2 gaiwans and cups
apparently a 90s yi xing shui ping, anyone mind helping me out to identify the pot?
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Here one of my cheap pot and cups but they do their function.
David and Iannon your Tetsuaki Nakao are incredible, in the future I have to buy one of this, but they are very very expensive.
David and Iannon your Tetsuaki Nakao are incredible, in the future I have to buy one of this, but they are very very expensive.
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How does that delicate blue glaze transform the strong red-orange clay into granite with a tracery of blue over it?
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I have that same set of cups I bought years ago. They are cheap, but also very pretty. I still use them from time to time. I like them a lot.lkj23 wrote:Here one of my cheap pot and cups but they do their function.
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Here is a new acquisition. It is a pair of late Qing Dynasty Gaiwan's. They hold 250cc each. They have the bird and flowers pattern which I am quite fond of. I have quite a few different pieces of tea ware with this pattern.
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IPT wrote:I have that same set of cups I bought years ago. They are cheap, but also very pretty. I still use them from time to time. I like them a lot.lkj23 wrote:Here one of my cheap pot and cups but they do their function.
Yes, very pretty, I like a lot too, when I waw them I had to buy hehe.
Nice gaiwan too, very very antiques!!
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IPT wrote:Awesome piece Debunix! I really like it!
Yes, very beautiful, is it a Hagi piece? Since I have bough my first Hagi (Senday )piece I have felt love for this kind of teaware, is awesome.
I´m going to love more teaware than tea hehehe
Here my 50ml zisha teapot
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Nice teapot, and very nice cups too.
Hope your shiboridashi arrives soon--although it is not made in Hagi, it's got a wonderful Hagi-like feeling to it. And my cup is Hagi, from coarse Hagi clay--although if I didn't turn it over and see the unglazed foot, I'd swear someone carved it from a chunk of Sierra Nevada granite.
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Hope your shiboridashi arrives soon--although it is not made in Hagi, it's got a wonderful Hagi-like feeling to it. And my cup is Hagi, from coarse Hagi clay--although if I didn't turn it over and see the unglazed foot, I'd swear someone carved it from a chunk of Sierra Nevada granite.
Blue granite by debunix, on Flickr
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Thank you. I´m wishing to receive it!!! my first shibo, I´m wating my first gyokuro order too.debunix wrote:Nice teapot, and very nice cups too.
Hope your shiboridashi arrives soon--although it is not made in Hagi, it's got a wonderful Hagi-like feeling to it. And my cup is Hagi, from coarse Hagi clay--although if I didn't turn it over and see the unglazed foot, I'd swear someone carved it from a chunk of Sierra Nevada granite.
Blue granite by debunix, on Flickr
Sierra Nevada hehehe a very good water(lanjaron) there to make tea, have you ever been there?
A question please, sake cups are used to drink tea too? people use them for gong fu or others teas?
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Yes. I have cups that I think were made for sake, but use for tea. I've read of people having to work hard to clean the sake smell out of used sake cups, but that's not a problem with new cups.lkj23 wrote:A question please, sake cups are used to drink tea too? people use them for gong fu or others teas?
The tea doesn't know what they were made for, and I appreciate having cups in a variety of sizes and styles.
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I have a number of Japanese sake cups that I use for gongfu cha. Their size is perfect and they are different than anything you can find in China, so they are great.
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My chinatown tea shop has a wide variety of styles in tea cups of about 50-60mL, many large cups and mugs of 200-250+ mL, including infuser mugs, and a handful of 15-20mL cups. There's a big gap between the tiny cups (which I use for my multiple-tea tastings), and the large mugs for bulk-brewed stuff that I've filled with Japanese, US, Czech, and Swiss-made cups.IPT wrote:Their size is perfect and they are different than anything you can find in China
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I remember I asked the same question too some time ago, and Chip confirmed that it is not only ok but completely normal to use sake cups / guinomis for tealkj23 wrote:A question please, sake cups are used to drink tea too? people use them for gong fu or others teas?
I use my sake cups for gyokuro and sometimes for expensive sencha (normal sencha will qualify for a bigger cup), as well as for oolong and occasionally even for pu-erh.
Also I'm very fond of sake cups since they are a relatively inexpensive and not too space-consuming way to build a beautiful hagi collection
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Thanks all!! I saw a lot of nice cups listed as sake cups and I had doubts. I am really pleased and fascinated with hagi pieces. I want a hagi collection too
Debunix received my shibo. MANY THANKS!!! received my first gyokuro too good day today
Debunix received my shibo. MANY THANKS!!! received my first gyokuro too good day today