Recommend Yixing teapot vendor

[armormaniac]

I was intrested in getting a few Yixing teapots but I know there's a lot of fakes out there. Does anyone know of reliable Yixing vendors? And also can anyone tell me if this site sells real Yixing?

http://www.yixing.com/index.html

[William]

Hi,

I suggest you these teapot, excellent craftsmanship and good clays, https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/clay/yixing.html

Albeit many teapots are out of stock, I think that they will be avaible again soon!

Regards.

[futurebird]

in addition to essence of tea...

http://Sampletea.com
Excellent quality, also nice samples.

http://www.tea-masters.com/en
I'm happy with both of the teapots I bought from this vendor.

http://www.jingteashop.com
Many people here admire their teapots.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Chinateaware
This etsy shop sells new teapots of good quality.

Where has everyone else been shopping?

[cnltc345]

in addition to essence of tea...

http://Sampletea.com
Excellent quality, also nice samples.

http://www.tea-masters.com/en
I'm happy with both of the teapots I bought from this vendor.

http://www.jingteashop.com
Many people here admire their teapots.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Chinateaware
This etsy shop sells new teapots of good quality.

Where has everyone else been shopping?

This etsy do have really nice looking teapots. Do they really sell quality stuff?

[futurebird]

https://www.etsy.com/transaction/250870714

I bought this one. It arrived broken and they sent me a new one. The clay is modern, but about as nice as modern clay will be.

I have not bought anything else from them but I think I'll buy something else.

[bonescwa]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/166903783/ ... ese-gongfu?

Watch out for stuff like this though

[futurebird]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/166903783/ ... ese-gongfu?

Watch out for stuff like this though

It looks like most JianShui to me. (I don't know as much about JianShui and I'm eager to learn) Why do you think this one should be avoided more than any of the others?

[cnltc345]

What about these ones:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/189399314/ ... _active_20
https://www.etsy.com/listing/195324573/ ... _active_17
https://www.etsy.com/listing/179363857/ ... _active_13

[ryancha]

I find this such a confusing topic. I can't figure out what, if anything, explains the tremendous range in prices across the different vendors, and how correlated those prices are to producing better tea. It seems like a crapshoot: you buy a pot, hoping it works with/improves teas that you like, and hoping that it is reasonably priced. But maybe it won't. So I can't figure out whether to buy one nice $500 pot, and hope it works with the style of teas I drink and hope it does a lot more than $150 pot, or just buy a $150 pot, or forget about yixing altogether!

[futurebird]

Which two pots are you comparing?

[BW85]

I find this such a confusing topic. I can't figure out what, if anything, explains the tremendous range in prices across the different vendors, and how correlated those prices are to producing better tea. It seems like a crapshoot: you buy a pot, hoping it works with/improves teas that you like, and hoping that it is reasonably priced. But maybe it won't. So I can't figure out whether to buy one nice $500 pot, and hope it works with the style of teas I drink and hope it does a lot more than $150 pot, or just buy a $150 pot, or forget about yixing altogether!

The range of prices will have to do with clay type and quality/purity, craftsmanship, and sometimes will have to do with who made the teapot/collection value. There is a difference in how low quality clay brews tea compared to nicer clay. But it might not be terribly obvious at first.
I'd say start with the lower price range though. Then later if you decide to buy a more expensive pot you'd have an first hand understanding of and be able to appreciate the difference more.
$100 to $200 pots can be very good indeed

Sometimes... someone's most used pot may be the one the spent the least on. It just all depends and shouldn't be thought about too much maybe

[futurebird]

What about these ones:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/189399314/ ... _active_20
https://www.etsy.com/listing/195324573/ ... _active_17
https://www.etsy.com/listing/179363857/ ... _active_13

I would just be responding to the photo and what I know of the seller from my one purchase. Of the pots they have on offer those are rather good gong fu teapots IMHO and it comes down to if you like them and what the clay is like in person. The clay looks nice enough.


170ml (big for a single person teapot)

This pot seems really shiny. Hopefully it's because it's high-fired as described. If it is this high-fired it will not absorb much flavor from tea. Functioning more like porcelain.

That said some of the most prized yixing pots are high fired?


250ml is huge. I bought a large teapot... but just know that these are bigish.



200ml

Large too. But, this clay might be the most fun to develop if that is your thing.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/182241272/ ... e_active_6

Here is a 150ml teapot... Hmm.





This one is nice too thought I can't decide if it is overpriced.

[cnltc345]

This one is nice too thought I can't decide if it is overpriced.

Thank-you for the evaluation. The 200ml Jianshui is big but seems nice I think; though, from the picture it looks more like a Qin Zhou? I would need to see it in person. The Da Hong Pao one look too shiny, I'm not sure what clay it consist of. Lastly, the 250ml Duan Ni is probably good for 4-6 people? And for the Shuiping, I'm not sure if it is overpriced or not depending on how it look in person?

[futurebird]

http://www.tea-masters.com/en/yixing-te ... iping.html

That might be a better value for a shuping.