Opinions about Yixing pots wanted: Benefits vs. Price Point?

[tingjunkie]

I am not sure if this was made clear, tingjunkie, but DHP or Dahongpao clay is a form of Zhuni. There are many colours of Zhuni which range usually from a shade of yellow through orange to the deeper red of DHP. Sometimes there are some brownish ones as well.

Ah! Good to know. Thanks.

[Salsero]

I think Zhuni is a subject even potters in Yixing get complicated at...

Once again, thanks for sharing some of your great knowledge with us, Char42.

[Tead Off]

I think Zhuni is a subject even potters in Yixing get complicated at...

Once again, thanks for sharing some of your great knowledge with us, Char42.

I'm glad chrl42 came into this thread. You can see the pitfalls of this business and the duplicity that takes place on many levels. Vendors selling things they either don't know about or bother to find out about, or, don't tell you the whole truth. It's so important to know your vendor these days and question them about everything. If they can't answer your questions, they usually don't know enough to be selling pots. This is also one of the reasons I am reluctant to buy a new pot.

[t4texas]

Charles - thanks for once again helping with the great complexities of these clay issues. The dhp people are discussing in this topic is not the original dhp, but the clay that a potter selling through Yunnan Sourcing is calling dhp. You spoke to that confusion well in the topic on those pots.

[TIM]

Thanks chrl42 for those helpful info. again and again

[TIM]

... Here I was thinking I had done some half decent research into the topic only to find out I know nothing. Is there no such thing as a Yixing kyusu then?...

Of course there is such a thing as Yixing Kyusu. A good part of yixing pots were made for the Japanese market thru out the 20th C. Specially in the 60s-80s. Most of them looks like a Shuiping with a side handle like a kyusu.

Got a pic for you tingjunkie:

[Maitre_Tea]

What the? That looks pretty weird. I kind of want to call "photoshopped," but it's possible. What's the source?

[tingjunkie]

Interesting Tim! I have to say that does not look very ergonomic at all.

[Luthier]

i saw a lefty one also and within my reach too

still prefer hengba type though

[TIM]

Interesting Tim! I have to say that does not look very ergonomic at all.

Well, it is certainly interesting if you have not seen one before... style-wise, it really depends on your conditioning of the culture.

The necessary whirling motion to brew a sencha or gyokuro, actually make the side ear perform quite comfortably and functional. This was from a Japanese antique shop, a mass produce 70s yixing made for Japanese market.

[edkrueger]

Side-handled Yixing set: http://www.houdeasianart.com/index.php? ... cts_id=103