I didn't say I wanted to educate people.TIM wrote: It's a duck spout. Not a shiuping or a pigeon beak.
As I understands. You a calling a elephant a rino?
If you wanna educated people, don't you think you need to get your knowledge right? I might be worry, so I'm learning too, or are you game for that? The one on the pic is for China market? Not Hong Kong which might have numbers for stamp or Taiwanese market in the 80s to 90s, which could have 4 characters stamps. But again I'm trying to learn from Chris version, since he is on Beijing.
What's your understanding of it, besides googling it Will? Pls do share.
I've always seem that style of pot referred to as gezui on auction sites, teapot forums, etc., and never seem it referred to as anything else. Looks more like a pigeon / dove than a duck to me anyway. I'm not saying that it may not have other names, but I think it's a common enough usage that it's not incorrect. As with anything in tea, there could be some variations in what's called what where.
I don't see how the market the pot is for or the seal matters in terms of what the shape is called.