Show Off Your Pots and Cups XVI

[Chip]

TeaChatters are movers and shakers, more often than is initially evident!

[lekke]

Is it just me, or does sencha really taste so much better from a Hagi?

This baby just came in today...

It's the left one from http://www.artisticnippon.com/product/h ... ohagi.html

It's been in my possession for less than an hour and I already love it sooo much

NICE! I actually have one of the Blue versions too..wanna know a funny story on how those even ended up on AN's site? I found one on Yahoo Japan..and instead of trying to go through proxy services I wrote Toru to see if he could obtain some couple months later he emailed me saying he obtained some and sent me pics of the first set of 4 he got..and so there you have it!

Funny story! Makes you think it's a small world after all

[solitude]

People with a weakness for little tiny things should skip this post. Close this window. Close your eyes.











My newest teapot arrived today--miniscule hardly begins to describe it:



it's on the lower left. The vast great pot in the upper right holds 60 mL comfortably and 70+ mL if filled to the brim. And here with a ruler for scale....nose to tail, or spout tip to handle, the largest dimension is just 2 inches.



I am most hopelessly entranced by its tiny perfection.

Beautiful pieces, I like a lot the small yixing. When my first 100 yixing pot arrived my girlfriend and parents said that I am crazy if I pay such a price for such small thing.

[Ambrose]

I have the other hokujo cup, and my sado kyusu in the back ground, not pictured is my other sado pot and my hokujo gyokuro cup

[Stentor]

I have the other hokujo cup, and my sado kyusu in the back ground, not pictured is my other sado pot and my hokujo gyokuro cup

You guys are killing me!
Seriously though, these are perfection.

[Chip]

I have the other hokujo cup, and my sado kyusu in the back ground, not pictured is my other sado pot and my hokujo gyokuro cup

You guys are killing me!
Seriously though, these are perfection.

They be "cup brothers!"

[Ambrose]

Yes indeed ! thank you!

ok ok Ill show you the rest of them

Sado Pot for me oolongs - 100ml thick walled

Sado Kyusu for me greens 147ml

Hokujo gyokuro mogake cup - 50ml

ze end!

[bonjiri]

a fun bizen piece from a up and coming artist from okayama

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[lekke]

a fun bizen piece from a up and coming artist from okayama

Whoaaa this one comes in with a built-in camouflage! Just turn it over on the desk and no one will know...

[IPT]

That is fantastic! I want!!!!

[JRS22]

People with a weakness for little tiny things should skip this post. Close this window. Close your eyes.

My newest teapot arrived today--miniscule hardly begins to describe it:



I am most hopelessly entranced by its tiny perfection.

Is that your Dragon Tea House pot? Mine just arrived yesterday. I spent some time pouring boiling water in it and over it, and today I'm planning to experiment with brewing some aged sheng in it.

[auhckw]

Tried this at a tea shop. Very nice with raw and ripe puerh.

Tea Cups x13

[debunix]

Is that your Dragon Tea House pot?

Yes. I'm still debating what to brew in it. I did soak it in a very mellow shu puerh for the last couple of days, and rinsed with boiling water today. It will be ready to brew tonight, but I'm having difficulty deciding what to brew in it. The only thing that seems appropriately precious enough is really fine aged sheng--the kind I have a little of, purchased by the gram, from Essence of Tea--or Dan Congs.

It is amazingly thin walled, so won't hold the heat in as well as a more solidly built yixing, but it's also so tiny that I may have to rinse and soften dan cong leaves to fit them inside it.

More and better pics when it's finally in use, of course.

[debunix]

Showed off more pictures of this little guy in the Yixing topic.



Turns out it is a functional teapot, although I'll have to use great caution in packing the pot, to keep it from popping its lid.

[AdamMY]

Turns out it is a functional teapot, although I'll have to use great caution in packing the pot, to keep it from popping its lid.

What is wrong with it popping its lid, with certain teas I aim for a packing density such that at full expansion the lid is lifted just slightly off the top of the pot, but can easily be forced shut with a finger.