Qie Duan 茄段, 172.3ml, BenShan ZhuNi 本山朱泥, by Craftsman Wu Peng 吴鹏。

~170ml to suit our tea sessions for one to two persons.

1)  This Qie Duan 茄段 features the Na Di 捺底 reflecting Wu Peng's skill, deftness and familiarity of clay.

捺底 Na4 Di3 base,
=》 Pertains to the Carefully pushed in plate/base during the Fully-Handmaking process.  Shows the detail in preparing a bottom/base caringly, unlike the usual flat base. 
捺底 increases the likelihood of crumbling/cracking during pot making/kiln firing.
Takes up more time, extracts more care from the Craftsman.  Thank you very much our collaborative Artisan Wu Peng! 加油!🙏🙏🎋 

2)  This pot is created and made with a 手推内球孔 Shou Tui Nei Qiu Kong, a.k.a. filter opening which is hand-pushed, inwards.  This is totally different from those moulded ball filters which half-handmade pots come with.  Shou Tui Nei Qiu Kong is a great feature of this Qie Duan which is diligently and carefully crafted in by hardworking Wu Peng.

Craftsman Wu Peng 吴鹏, is an expert Craftsman handling BenShan ZhuNi 本山朱泥, and not just that, he curates and handpicks his own BenShan ZhuNi clay from the miners.  His own pedigree of high quality BenShan ZhuNi.

Here he joins us at RealZiSha, excitedly alongside Craftsman Zhao Xiao Wei 赵小卫。Importantly, Craftsman Wu Peng 吴鹏 crafts up the BenShan ZhuNi ZiSha works while Craftsman Zhao Xiao Wei 赵小卫 crafts up the XiaoMeiYao and ZhaoZhuang ZhuNi ZiSha works.

ZhuNi is:
1.  of a pasty consistency, and,
2.  of high shrinkage compared to ZiNi and DuanNi.
Due to these two factors, you will seldom see ZhuNi pots that have  embellishments and ornamental sculpting gracing them.

HOWEVER, HERE Craftsman Wu Peng, breaks through, and is AMAZINGLY ABLE TO CRAFT and give us such Austere-minimal Ornate class pots AT SUCH GREAT LOW PRICES.

This is a BOON to ALL of us ZiSha collectors, users and patrons.  Such a BOON!  ZhuNi, boasting Ornate class quality, experience and craftsmanship, at stupendous lowest prices.

This low price is made possible because of his dexterity, skill, experience and knowledge of his BenShan ZhuNi clay, which he has been specially working on more than 10 years, since year 2012.

Craftsman Wu Peng lovingly and carefully coaxed the BenShan ZhuNi into these Works of Art on our tea tables.   Thank you for your grandest support to these honest and dedicated Craftsladies and Craftsmen left to fend the Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art.
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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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This pot has the discontinuous and roughly horizontal marks in the inner walls, and these are called the: 泥凳纹 Ni Deng Wen, which are the marks left on the clay slab , complementary to the marks on the workbench of the Craftsman Wu Peng!🙇‍♂️🤗🎋  During the making of FHM ZiSha pots, the Craftsman will be using tools to cut the clay slabs, etc, and these leave marks on the studio workbench.  Especially the first major forceful cut across the table to delineate the clay she/he wants to utilise to form the main body of the body.  Thus when the craftsman subsequently pound the clay slab on a well-worn workbench which bear these cut-in marks, these marks will be etched complementarily onto the clay slab!  Thus you are "enjoying" the additional natural hallmarks of a Fully-Handmade pot.  (For example, a partially handmade pot will not show these marks).  And for those Jigger-machined pots, what they manifest are CONCENTRIC, continuous circular lines, all parallel to one another.