145ml.
Delicately made, thin-walled, NOT thick-walled, NOR irregular-thickness-walled like those cheating new technology 车一刀 Che Yi Dao 朱泥 pots sprouting up in the market since early 2022. Che Yi Dao involves a swivelling-rotational cutter that goes around a roughly-finished ZhuNi pot to cut the outer surface into a perfect shape. This cutter obliviates the need of accomplished skill of a true Fully-Handmaking Craftsman. Obviously, Che Yi Dao also absolves the need of a skilled FHM Craftsman to 1)pound the slab into a careful thin-slab, 2)paddle-pat the slab into a uniform shape purely manually.
In the utilisation of Che Yi Dao cutter, the worker will just need to 1) roughly pound the slab into a slightly thicker slab. After that the worker rounds up this slab as part of the main body, and will just 2)need to ROUGHLY paddle-pat it into shape. Afterwhich he sets up the Che Yi Dao cutter to revolve and cut the body into a perfect shape.
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Xi Shi is the Austere shape and model which all ZiSha collectors must have.
Xi Shi, is a spherical shape which is extremely difficult to get right just with the paddle and hand. That is why we cherish Fully-Handmade Xi Shi so much.
Skilful Artisan Zhao Xiao Wei crafted up this Xi Shi of thin-wall which is not easy to do right especially with the high (and oft-unpredictable results) shrinkage of XiaoMeiYao ZhuNi AND done on a round-ish, spherical shape that is the quintessential Xi Shi.
Also, crafted to be 145ml to suit our tea sessions for one to two persons.
Courtesy of our hardworking Craftsman: Zhao Xiao Wei 赵小卫。
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He thanks you for your kindest support of his Art!