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!! A great welcome to him!
176.5ml.
Craftsman 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,
"竹韵茶香" ~ describing,
"The Aura of Bamboo and the Fragrance of Tea."
You can see he signs off as "一德刻" meaning "Yi De Engraving".
TRULY FULLY-HANDMADE AND DELICATELY MADE.
NOT those thick-/irregular-thickness-walled ones which are actually fake "Fully-handmade ZhuNi pots" utilising the cheating new technology: "车一刀 Che Yi Dao": Such ZhuNi pots utilizing Che Yi Dao process, have been 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. After which he sets up the Che Yi Dao cutter to revolve and cut the body into a perfect shape.
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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.
Presented by Craftsman Wang Xing 王兴。
And he thanks you for your kindest support of his Art!
Steep tea with his Craft, Friends!
Savour his superb skills, dearest Friends!