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Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 21st, '11, 10:49
by odarwin
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 21st, '11, 14:38
by lkj23
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.
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 21st, '11, 23:42
by debunix
How does that delicate blue glaze transform the strong red-orange clay into granite with a tracery of blue over it?
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 22nd, '11, 08:02
by IPT
lkj23 wrote:Here one of my cheap pot and cups but they do their function.
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.
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 22nd, '11, 09:01
by IPT
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.
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 22nd, '11, 14:40
by lkj23
IPT wrote:lkj23 wrote:Here one of my cheap pot and cups but they do their function.
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.
Yes, very pretty, I like a lot too, when I waw them I had to buy hehe.
Nice gaiwan too, very very antiques!!
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 22nd, '11, 21:39
by IPT
Awesome piece Debunix! I really like it!
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 23rd, '11, 15:32
by lkj23
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
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 23rd, '11, 16:23
by debunix
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
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 23rd, '11, 19:42
by lkj23
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
Thank you. I´m wishing to receive it!!! my first shibo, I´m wating my first gyokuro order too.
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?
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 23rd, '11, 20:20
by debunix
lkj23 wrote:A question please, sake cups are used to drink tea too? people use them for gong fu or others teas?
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.
The tea doesn't know what they were made for, and I appreciate having cups in a variety of sizes and styles.
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 23rd, '11, 22:27
by IPT
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.
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 23rd, '11, 22:39
by debunix
IPT wrote:Their size is perfect and they are different than anything you can find in China
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.
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 24th, '11, 03:47
by Nenugal
lkj23 wrote:A question please, sake cups are used to drink tea too? people use them for gong fu or others teas?
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 tea
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
Re: NEWEST CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI
Posted: Jun 24th, '11, 07:03
by lkj23
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