Fully-Handmade ZiSha pots do not come easy and we must therefore cherish every single Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot that we hold in our hands.

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QUICK FACTS. TO TELL whether a pot is a Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot 全手工紫砂壶, or is a Jigger-machined non-ZiSha ceramic clay pot 机车非紫砂壶.

We need to observe the pot and then depend on the COMBINATION of many factors:

1) the 形体 Xing Ti of the pot. Does it look coherent, do the lines point to a lazy worker from factory line working fast to churn out many jigger-machined pots. Do the designs/embellishments reek of overzealous Orientalism, do they give you goose-pimples?Does the spout look correct? Many of the jigger-machined pots and many DaiGong pots that cost $5,000, look "stiff" and lacking the naturality, the flowing, fluid Qi 气 and Yun 韵 that a Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot crafted by a Great Craftsman and Artist. In order to tell the fakes-pretenders vs the real, legitimate, elegant and proper ZiSha Works, one does need a lot of practice, looking and looking and looking at proper FHM ZiSha pots from respectable Craftsmen and Artists (not involved in 代工 DaiGong dishonest practices). Remember that 90% of L1 and L2 Senior Artists now are already engaged in the dishonest DaiGong industry (the pots with their stamps are NOT made by them but by lesser skilled workers). Do spend your time looking at Proper, honest, TOP Craftsmen and Artists' works here at all our sections, and sharpen your acumen. Do so, and train your eyes.

Xing Ti is one of the most important factors. If the Xing Ti is wrong, one does NOT even need to pick up the pot and judge anymore. If the Xing Ti is wrong, the pot cannot be a Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot.

2) the 内壁 inner-wall. The patterns, the "fluffiness", and how they look and behave in straight and curved inner walls after firing. Very important.

3) the 重量/密度 weight of the pot. More often than not, jigger-machined pots weight heavier: they ARE denser! Jigger-machining entails the use of clays (pastey cheap clays that are non-ZiSha or, mixed with some poor quality ZiSha) that can be jigger-machined. Such clays ARE denser. YiXing ZiSha can only be slab-built, they are relatively unyielding and hard, and brittle/crumbly. They are the most difficult clay to work on in the world too.

4) the 手感 feel. A FHM ZiSha pot CAN be nurtured with use and tea steepings, and after time: with the DEFINITE FORMATION OF A BEAUTIFUL PATINA 包浆 that is TOTALLY UN-IMITABLE. Our friends here have reached tremendous levels of Patina FORMATION even with our $182 pots from Craftsman Chen Fa Chu and $226 pots from Craftsman Zhao. Rest assured. These trusted Craftsmen utilise superb quality ZiSha clays, not just ZiSha clays. Our customers often showed us their pots in person, months after purchase and usage, the patina formed are amazing: the pots look and feel moist, pearly/jade-like but without the oilyness nor stickiness. The patina looks shiny and moist BUT the pots do not feel oily at all!!: This is the Star quality of ZiSha pots. Non-ZiSha pots, even after ten years of use, will look and feel dry and parched for they are incapable of a good patina formation, nor any patina at all.

Many other less important parameters which can be found in our YouTube channel videos. Thank you dearest Friends and Buddies in Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art and craft!!! Thank you!

*Dear Friends :-D, an update: ALL of us experienced friends and patrons with us, do know how to tell a Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot from a fake "Fully-Handmade" pot that is formed from non-ZiSha ceramic clays and from Jigger-machined processes. We also wish to ask newcomers to Kindly Note that: the absence or presence of the Man Pian 满片 and/or Di Pian 底片 seam cannot SINGULARLY point to whether a pot is a FHM ZiSha pot or not. For example, the Fully-Handmaking Artist or Craftsman OFTEN WISH to ADD a bit more clay to REFINE and smoothen the outside area around the circumferential ManPian 满片 or DiPian 底片 seams, and thus smearing off the presence of these natural Man Pian/Di Pian seams.*

Also, these ManPian and DiPian seams are NOWADAYS OFTEN FAKED on by non-Fully-Handmade pots (yes, those ubiqitous jigger-machined, slip-casted pots): the factory boss nowadays, often INSTRUCT his workers to swivel a tool and cut a line to FAKE the ManPian/DiPian seams. NOT ONLY THAT, the factor bosses recently have new MOLDS that INHERENTLY have a seam on the top circumference and bottom circumference so that the jigger-machined pot that pops out of it, will bear such FAKE MANPIAN AND DIPIAN SEAMS!

Just be aware.

Our Aunt Senior Master Cao Lan Fang will put back to our Cao Family's vault, the precious YuanKuang DaHongPao. After our annoucement in October 2023, she has received nine orders by nine patrons and friends. And the tenth order came in at the last minute on the 17th Feb. We thank all of our friends. Our family of Grand Master Cao Ya Lin, Grand Master Cao Yan Ping, Premier Master Cao An Xiang, have agreed to have Senior Master Cao Lan Fang take out from our vault a portion of YuanKuang DaHongPao enough to craft TEN ZiSha Works for our dearest friends in you. For friends who wish to get more information still about this Massive Project to serve all of your friends, do click on the YuangKuang DaHongPao announcement & information Section.

As we mentioned in the article, there are hardly 40 bricks left in YiXing, and none was discovered since the 80s. We CONGRATULATE these extremely fortunate ten patrons. Thank you too, Friends for your kind attention.

Gratefully yours,
~ RealZiSha & Cao Family

Our grandfather being in the business and work of exploring, excavation and processing of ZiSha ores in the 1920s to 1950s, before Socialist China began
~~~ spawned the next generation, our uncles and aunts: Cao Ya Lin, Cao Yan Ping, Cao Lan Fang, Cao An Xiang resolved to make a name for themselves by committing to the actual ZiSha Artwork, and they succeeded tremendously, climbing the echelons of the ZiSha Art Fraternity and serving the ZiSha community with their glorious works.
~~~ We have 22 warehouses of ZiSha ores in our stock, and we supply ZiSha ores, processed & finished ore("clay")-bricks to even our neighbouring Grand Masters and Masters in YiXing.
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WE have been serving friends and patrons, since 2013.

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Our direct family members are Renowned, World-Class, Top-Notch GrandMasters and Masters. By virtue of our family ties, and growing up with, shoulders and all, with the YiXing Artists and Community Craftsmen, we provide the Best for YOU. Nowhere else will you find these top notch, highest quality pots at these honest-to-goodness prices: very proudly presented to you. Our margins are low, we earn a small profit, just enough to keep us afloat, we never profiteer, we work hard and we are happy to serve you.

We want to grow this WIN-WIN situation:

1) SUPPORT for the honest, proper Artists and Crafts-ladies, Craftsmen, thereby SUSTAINING this exacting ZiSha Art... or else, the countless industrial Jigger-machined pots, Slip-casted pots, and half-handmade pots continue to flood the market, and the teapot buying community will very soon fail to tell apart, decipher and recognise a pot: FULLY-Handmade and only from wholly 100% ZiSha.

2) You, our friend, get to procure and curate your own winning collection in your home.

Contact us for privileged connection and video-call with the Artists here with us when you commission them for your bespoke/special new pots. If you have other Artists in mind, we CAN connect with most of them in YiXing too. Artists are very busy working on their benches 10pm to 5am. We will fight for you.

We keep working hard to achieve:

Unbeatable, Through-the-roof Performance-to-Price ratio ZiSha pots, Authentic Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art,

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