Show Off Your Pots and Cups XI

[CDS]

Came in today from my favorite teaware seller, NadaCha! Makes good tea and is beautiful to look at! Sorry for the crappy photos. Nice large 180ml size for those mornings when you can't get awaken.

Rather than rewrite the description, I will quote the seller's.

Custom ordered in 2001 by a taiwanese tea house from a potter in Yixing. Designed for balled green oolong - large body to allow the leaves to open, super thin high fired walls, large spout for quick pours.
Interesting Dragon and Phoenix design - with dragon in base and Phoenix on base of lid. Tall lid is quite unique - it presses down on the leaves, I presume to keep the leaves down and allow a better pour.

[scruffmcgruff]

Day-um, that is a gorgeous pot. I love the hidden design!

[CDS]

Day-um, that is a gorgeous pot. I love the hidden design!

Thanks! I am really loving the pot. It is surely my most unique piece.

[Sam.]

I just got back to my condo in Austin and there was a "Sorry We Missed You!" in my mail from USPS. A package has arrived from Japan! I will post about it tomorrow.

[Maitre_Tea]

About that pot, how far down does the lid go into the pot itself? Or what's the height of that lid compared to the pot's body?

[bonjiri]

wow

wow

pls post the info on the chasen holder. iwant one in cocobolo. hehe

ican provide the wood.

wow.

thank you !

c

[Victoria]

wow
wow
pls post the info on the chasen holder. iwant one in cocobolo. hehe
ican provide the wood.

wow.
c

You can contact him through his Etsy Store:
Bob of Bob's Custom Woodcrafts:
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.ph ... d=17536319

[CDS]

About that pot, how far down does the lid go into the pot itself? Or what's the height of that lid compared to the pot's body?

It goes about 2/3's down into the pot.

[Victoria]

It definitely looks cool, but that seems to me like it would interfere, unless you are supposed to keep the lid off during brewing.

[CDS]

It definitely looks cool, but that seems to me like it would interfere, unless you are supposed to keep the lid off during brewing.

Brewing some more with it this morning, the top looks to go into the pot about half the way instead of 2/3's.
I am still trying to figure the best way to brew with it, and what it was made like this for. If anyone that has more experience or has every seen one of these, please chime in!
The lid doesn't really get in the way. The single hole is somewhat of a challenge with the balled Oolong, until it opens up.

[TIM]

It definitely looks cool, but that seems to me like it would interfere, unless you are supposed to keep the lid off during brewing.

Brewing some more with it this morning, the top looks to go into the pot about half the way instead of 2/3's.
I am still trying to figure the best way to brew with it, and what it was made like this for. If anyone that has more experience or has every seen one of these, please chime in!
The lid doesn't really get in the way. The single hole is somewhat of a challenge with the balled Oolong, until it opens up.

This long leg style is for traditional high fired oolong/TGY. Since this kind of tea is rolled, the long leg act as a press, similar idea as a espresso press.

[horsencl]

Just when I had convinced myself that I don't need any more yixings you have to go and show me that pot

[Victoria]

It's a bad idea to set resolutions about teaware and still visit this forum.
It's an exercise in futility. But hey, at least it's exercise! Heh.

[Seeker]

Wow, beautiful Oolong pot!
Though I can't help but imagine, based on my own love and experience of tikuanyins, that the lid would be hard to put back in for subsequent infusions? Tikuanyin oolongs really open up and 'expand'. Then, if the lid doesn't go down all the way and 'seat', seems like pouring would be a little messy - tea out the spout and tea out the unseated lid opening? Unless of course one is thrifty with the amount of leaf used. But based on your pic, it looks like you used ample leaf, and I wonder how the lid seated when you re-inserted for subsequent infusions?
Cheers!

[olivierco]

It's a bad idea to set resolutions about teaware and still visit this forum.
It's an exercise in futility. But hey, at least it's exercise! Heh.

My "I have already all the houhins I need" resolution had to be postponed.
Two more are on their way from Japan.