Porosity of modern vs pre-60s Yixing

[AdamMY]

Ay-yi-yi. It's just that sort of fabricated fantasy kiln that gives China a bad name. Some huge brick building must have been demolished, and they decided to try and capitalize on the tea craze by building something that superficially resembles an insanely huge kiln.

I am not sure I understand what you are saying here? Is your comment based more on the fact that this kiln has not been used? Or are you claiming that no such kiln has ever been used?

Honestly this kiln does not seem to huge compared to kilns in other East Asian countries, I will have to see if I can find the video of a Korean Kiln going through a firing and unloading, it truly did not look much smaller, or different than this one.

[pokute]

Ay-yi-yi. It's just that sort of fabricated fantasy kiln that gives China a bad name. Some huge brick building must have been demolished, and they decided to try and capitalize on the tea craze by building something that superficially resembles an insanely huge kiln.

I am not sure I understand what you are saying here? Is your comment based more on the fact that this kiln has not been used? Or are you claiming that no such kiln has ever been used?

Honestly this kiln does not seem to huge compared to kilns in other East Asian countries, I will have to see if I can find the video of a Korean Kiln going through a firing and unloading, it truly did not look much smaller, or different than this one.

I'm basing it on the brickwork, which is not correct.

[AdamMY]

I'm basing it on the brickwork, which is not correct.

I'll bite, what is wrong with the brick work? Even if it would never survive a firing, it does not mean things like this never existed, and this one admittedly was built for educational and decorative purposes. I do not know what part of the world you are in, but it is common to have historic recreations that are meant to give an idea of what things would have been like, though when getting into the details are often full of historical inaccuracies.

[ChinesePottery]

Ay-yi-yi. It's just that sort of fabricated fantasy kiln that gives China a bad name. Some huge brick building must have been demolished, and they decided to try and capitalize on the tea craze by building something that superficially resembles an insanely huge kiln.

Well, I disagree. The last Kiln I wrote about, the one in the Wuxi Institute for arts and technology is not being promoted as authentic or old. It is not even publicly accessible. I can't quite follow your train of thought how an educational project could give China a bad name.

[chrl42]

Ay-yi-yi. It's just that sort of fabricated fantasy kiln that gives China a bad name. Some huge brick building must have been demolished, and they decided to try and capitalize on the tea craze by building something that superficially resembles an insanely huge kiln.

Well, I disagree. The last Kiln I wrote about, the one in the Wuxi Institute for arts and technology is not being promoted as authentic or old. It is not even publicly accessible. I can't quite follow your train of thought how an educational project could give China a bad name.

I've heard Fan Wei Qun (Fan Jia Hu Zhuang's owner) was starting on building those huge kiln to reincarnate the fantasy of Dragon Kiln, with the money he got off the Koreans. Not sure if it's the same one..maybe not.

As Zisha Yichang (factory-1) closed down, 2 things we won't be able to see again in future are, heavy-oil tunnel kiln and no.4 mine..too bad

thnxs for uploading *hot* pictures of 陶都..hehe