Show Off Your Pots and Cups V

[orguz]

To Bubba,

You should use the silver pot, make some raw sheng pu, or your high mountain oolongs the lightly oxidised unroasted ones. The silver is suppose to bring out the best out of the shengs. use less leafs then usual. . Don`t let it sit there and be useless and wasted

[Salsero]

Here's my stuff...

Very nice collection. As Orguz says, silver is supposed to be especially good at bringing out the true nature of tea ... reportedly, it also highlights the faults as well as the glories.

In March of last year, Phyll Sheng wrote a nice performance evaluation of the silver teapot Danica got from Stéphane Erler. You might enjoy reading it.

[Bubba_tea]

Thanks guys - love the chick in the cup. I did read the teamaster blog post about silver. Sounded crazy to me. My folks are coming for a visit and maybe my mom will clean that silver again I think one is a coffee pot and the other is a tea pot - but in our case we'll call the smaller one a 'fair cup'

PS - I think the legend goes that silver turns black in contact with poison - so the emperor used silver chopsticks. That's just my memory though... so if there's funny things in my pu then maybe it will turn black too! (besides the tarnish...)

[joelbct]

Picked this up today, Yunomi from a local shop.





Enjoying some Ippodo Shincha at the moment... yummy.

[Geekgirl]

Wosret, I'm begging you, STOP!!!

Picked up a couple of mini kokeshi dolls today at the Japanese Garden, couldn't resist. Heh.

[Wosret]

That girl seems to be literally "in her cups".

I googled, but it didn't help. What does that mean?

[Salsero]

I googled, but it didn't help. What does that mean?

oops on me! Pardon my abstruse citation.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_his_cups

[britt]

Britt: That's one gorgeous kyusu. Yowza. And the pine cone on the lid is a wonderful touch.

Thanks Chamekke. I sent these photos to Toru at AN just so he could see the filter. He said this is one of only a few Bizen kyusu that he's seen that were designed to brew sencha. He also liked the pine cone.

[britt]

Britt, beautiful kyuusu. It has tons of personality!

Thanks Sal. Or as Toru has said before when referring to certain Bizen pieces at AN, they're "dynamic."

A year ago I don't think I would even have considered buying this. I'll be the first to admit that Bizen may not be visually attractive to everyone, myself included, but for some reason I've found that tea and sake taste consistently great when using Bizen products.

It also helped open my mind to Bizen a bit after learning just how they're fired and how few survive, but it's the great taste that really grabbed me. I don't know why this would be true, but others have said it as well.

[t4texas]

That is one beautiful pot, Britt.

[Salsero]

Bizen may not be visually attractive to everyone, myself included

This one must be the exception. I am the first to dislike a lot of pottery pieces, but this pot looks great to me.

[ABx]

Some of my new stuff since my last post (forever ago)

[geeber1]

ABx .... Please forgive a noob question, but what is that spiky thing?

[ABx]

It's a puerh pick, for breaking up puerh cakes/bricks/touchas It tapers so you don't have to pry. The little dog(?) on the top is hard to take a good pic of, but it's jade.

[Pentox]

ABx .... Please forgive a noob question, but what is that spiky thing?

That's the ceremonial sacrificial dagger. You use it to stab the heart of your sacrifice to extract the blood to steep tea in.

ABx is into some crazy pu.