Desaru shipwreck yixing teapot video

[betta]

Maybe many of us have seen it before. I found this video about desaru shipwreck yixing teapot quite interesting.
It's in malay languange with some comments in english by the archaeologist Sten Sjostrand and couple of other participants.
Basically he was exhibiting the pot, for sale as well, and he managed to desalinate the pot and tested it with kind of ion-conductivity measuring instrument.
The participants were given chances to compare tea soup steeped from desaru shipwreck yixing pot and a regular yixing pot. Somehow they came to different conclusion about which soup steeped from which pot .

[Luthier]

hmm the pots aren't for sale though according to the TV host. its in my native language, Malay. i'm thinking that those pot were probably mass produced and not really by artisans of that time. pots of and even before the 15 century already had intricate designs and workmanship.

[xuancheng]

hmm the pots aren't for sale though according to the TV host.

I think they are for sale. Or at least there are plenty from other shipwrecks that are.[/quote]
http://www.skip4tea.com/ under teaware. you have to skip to the third page or so. All the pots dated 1820 are from the same ship. (Maybe not the same ship as the Desaru wreck, but the same ship as the other pots dated 1820)

Also: http://www.mingwrecks.com has shipwreck pots for sale

[chrl42]

Right, Desaru pots weren't artisan's at their best.

Back then, there were master-made pots, carefully-made pots and roughly-made pots..Desaru belongs to third. Plus lots of salt might have assimiliated into clays from long time of being under sea.

Funny they exported not their best but rather rough ones..

[auhckw]

I was at skip4tea's office and managed to see those teapots. It looks quite old and rugged. Comes with certificate.