Li Xing 梨形, 175.5ml, Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni 小煤窑朱泥, by Craftsman Wang Xing 王兴, Engraving by Craftsman Ding Tie Ping 丁铁平 (Artistic Byname 一德).
Heroes do not wear capes.
We regards Wang Xing as one. Humble, hardworking and single-mindedly continuing his pursuit tto help us all with affordable, high quality true Fully-Handmade ZiSha pots.
Here is Wang Xing!! Applause to him!
175.5ml.
Wang Xing's skills are brilliant.
His mastery of the overall shape is here for us to savour.
The Xing Ti 形体, is just superb.
From the photographs, we admire and easily appreciate his amazing Craftsmanship.
This is working with XiaoMeiYao ZhuNi, one with even higher shrinkage than ZiNi and DuanNi, and thus a lot more deformities that CAN arise easily during firing.
We bear witness to dear Wang Xing's skills.
Additional Engraving specially arranged and accomplished by Craftsman Ding Tie Ping 丁铁平。
Artistic Byname: Yi De 一德。
The Engraving for you friend, are the auspicious words,
"逸趣横生" ~meaning,
Life is full of joy and happiness.
You can see he signs off as "一德刻" meaning "Yi De Engraving".
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Li Xing 梨形 is one of the most lovely Austere shapes which XiaoMeiYao is made into! A highly limited run here as well as our recent Fang Gu, Xi Shi, Pan Hu, Ming Lu, Shui Ping and JingZhou ShiPiao models. We hope you friends have loved all of them!
Li Xing 梨形 exudes the Aura of Chinese Orientalism, 2)for a narrowing top ZiSha model, it has a wider opening than Si Ting for better ease of introducing tea leaves and washing after steeping, 3)has a sharp-ish spout for decisive cutting of flow, and 4)has a slightly raised lid that stores a column of air above the tea water level when the lid is closed, so that during the initial first moment of pour with that few degrees of tilt, tea water flows out decisively and easily right from the start.
Crafted at ~180ml to cater for our tea friends who want a small ZhuNi pot for Gung Fu tea steepings, and suitable for one to two persons.
Steep tea with his Craft, Friends!