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I see they are from yunnansourcing which certainly has great puerhs(if leaf shape is as good as in the pics) at great price.
But does not mean they have great selection of yixing, too.
You centainly want to brew in a teapot made of 'real' yixing clay, right?
Yixing teapot that's not made from yixing clay isn't yixing teapot afterall.
Just note that yixing clay is unable to produce in a mass production because it needs hand care for each pot.
So yixing clay-like muds are used to make into a pot for quantity. (watch out for teapot where their inside have circle marks, no marks or rough-made vertical marks)
Because of it, the minimum price yixing sellers call at wholesale market in China for real yixing, goes over 200 yuan(30 USD). Then gets bigger as going to retail markets, overseas markets and then taxes and seller's own profit.
But does not mean they have great selection of yixing, too.
You centainly want to brew in a teapot made of 'real' yixing clay, right?
Yixing teapot that's not made from yixing clay isn't yixing teapot afterall.
Just note that yixing clay is unable to produce in a mass production because it needs hand care for each pot.
So yixing clay-like muds are used to make into a pot for quantity. (watch out for teapot where their inside have circle marks, no marks or rough-made vertical marks)
Because of it, the minimum price yixing sellers call at wholesale market in China for real yixing, goes over 200 yuan(30 USD). Then gets bigger as going to retail markets, overseas markets and then taxes and seller's own profit.
Man... that's new for me. I heared true yixing isn't cheap, but don't know the benchmark.chrl42 wrote:(watch out for teapot where their inside have circle marks, no marks or rough-made vertical marks)
Because of it, the minimum price yixing sellers call at wholesale market in China for real yixing, goes over 200 yuan(30 USD). Then gets bigger as going to retail markets, overseas markets and then taxes and seller's own profit.
What can the mark in the pot tell us?
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There is 4 ways of making yixingware.chamekke wrote:What sort of marks should a Yixing teapot have?chrl42 wrote:(watch out for teapot where their inside have circle marks, no marks or rough-made vertical marks)
First is entirely hand-made. In this case, inside of pot has nothing but a stamp to show it's hand-made(cos having a stamp inside can't be faked), sometimes joint line at the back of it.
Second is half hand-made with a tool and this is what most of real yixing pot is being made in the market. Gentle vertical line can be found.
Third is using a mud and whirling just the way making a porcelain jar. To make this way, clay should be very mild which yixing clay does not. In this case horizental line can be found.
Fourth is putting mud into mould then dry it to make hard, a bad bad yixing ware. Sometimes they 'draw' vertical line to pretend it's yixing ware.
Just note that 3 mountains of yixing source stopped mining by law decades ago, so only one mountain is being mined recently but with limited quantity.
That being said, it's clay that matters most in yixing ware, yixing clay is special clay only can be found in Jiangsu province and nowhere else, it means after our lifetime, manufacturing yixing teapot can fade as history.
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I was thinking that might be a possibility, but lucky for me, I love black also.Salsero wrote:You mean the black one? The broad spectral highlights do kind of give an impression of gray, but it is jet black. Too butch for you, girl!Victoria wrote:ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I have been kinda drooling over the silver/gray ones for awhile now. Soooooooooooooooo me. Love gray.
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WOW. What a popular thread this turned out to be! Lots of controversy of whether they are fake or not. The good thing is that chrl42 stated that real yixing's are made in Jiangsu, and sure enough if you scroll down the page with the pots, thats where they are produced. whether they are high quality hand-made pot. . . i doubt it, but they seem to be authentic and for $11 you cant go wrong. not to mention they are beautiful pots.